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registered interest
date	08/11/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to extend the scope of the scheme for transferring responsibility for relevant children under section 73 of the Immigration Act 2016 to include Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	52360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2016 answer text <p>We are consulting the Devolved Administrations on the extension of the transfer provisions in the Immigration Act 2016 to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We will confirm our plans in light of that consultation.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/11/2016 17:32:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

600706

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department is providing for costs associated with (a) health services and (b) civil legal advice and assistance in Scotland for expenditure consequential on dispersing asylum seekers to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	48426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>Health in Scotland is a devolved matter and therefore responsibility for funding would be with the Scottish Government. Legal aid in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scotland Legal Aid Board, an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government.</p><p>To ensure statutory duties are met, Home Office funds local migration partnerships to support inter-agency planning of central funded public services for asylum seekers. It also offers 'signposting', independent advice to asylum seekers so they can access health and legal aid, under a contract with Migrant Help. It is however, out with the jurisdiction of Home Office to directly fund health care and legal aid.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 48462 question first answered 20/10/2016 14:46:46 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

600727

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure her Department made and what funding it provided to the Scottish Government in 2015-16 for the provision to dispersed asylum seekers in Scotland of (a) health services and (b) civil legal advice and assistance and civil legal aid.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	48462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>Health in Scotland is a devolved matter and therefore responsibility for funding would be with the Scottish Government. Legal aid in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scotland Legal Aid Board, an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government.</p><p>To ensure statutory duties are met, Home Office funds local migration partnerships to support inter-agency planning of central funded public services for asylum seekers. It also offers 'signposting', independent advice to asylum seekers so they can access health and legal aid, under a contract with Migrant Help. It is however, out with the jurisdiction of Home Office to directly fund health care and legal aid.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 48426 question first answered 20/10/2016 14:46:46 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

582053

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Compass Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has conducted surveys with asylum seekers accommodated under her Compass contracts on what they felt about their (a) housing and (b) treatment by staff.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	45986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>The overarching purpose of the COMPASS Inspection Regime is to ensure that the accommodation provided is safe, habitable, fit for purpose; that the overall service described in the COMPASS contracts is being delivered and to ensure that Service Users feel safe, secure and know how to raise concerns should they occur.</p><p>Following on from the audit into asylum seeker accommodation in Middlesbrough, UKVI have trialled various methods of gathering, recording and responding to service users’ feedback relating to service delivery as part of improving their inspection regime.</p><p>Following analysis from the trials conducted UKVI intends to agree a formal process which is to be rolled out across all provider Regions.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 15/09/2016 14:40:14 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

576881

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
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, how many applications were made by (a) EEA nationals for registration certificates and (b) EEA family members and extended family members for residence cards in each month since January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	45158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>Data on the total number of EEA related applications made by people in the UK is published on a quarterly basis as part of the Migration Transparency Data release. The latest published figures (Q2 2016) can be found in the table ‘Temporary and permanent migration data’. See tab InC-01a. This data can be accessed via the link below.</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-august-2016</p><p>With regards to the online processing of EEA applications, UK Visas &amp; Immigration is undertaking a programme of transformation of which digitisation is a core part. UKVI is working towards digitising all application routes from existing methods of applying by paper for applicants from within and outside of the UK. The intention is to enable customers to apply online across the services and immigration routes in a straight-forward and customer-focused way.</p><p>The online application service Access UK first launched for visit visa customers in China in June 2014, and has subsequently been rolled out to 180 countries globally for overseas visit routes in more than 15 languages. For those already in the UK, Access UK has launched for customers applying for tier 2 (work) and tier 4 (study) extensions and is preparing for further services to go online. UKVI is currently trialling the online service for some EEA applicants. As the programme matures we expect benefits to security, customer service and efficiencies to be identified and realised.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 45159 question first answered 13/09/2016 12:13:48 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 11026 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

576882

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of processing applications for registration certificates and residence cards through an online system; and if she will estimate the potential savings in administration costs to the public purse of such a system.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	45159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>Data on the total number of EEA related applications made by people in the UK is published on a quarterly basis as part of the Migration Transparency Data release. The latest published figures (Q2 2016) can be found in the table ‘Temporary and permanent migration data’. See tab InC-01a. This data can be accessed via the link below.</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-august-2016</p><p>With regards to the online processing of EEA applications, UK Visas &amp; Immigration is undertaking a programme of transformation of which digitisation is a core part. UKVI is working towards digitising all application routes from existing methods of applying by paper for applicants from within and outside of the UK. The intention is to enable customers to apply online across the services and immigration routes in a straight-forward and customer-focused way.</p><p>The online application service Access UK first launched for visit visa customers in China in June 2014, and has subsequently been rolled out to 180 countries globally for overseas visit routes in more than 15 languages. For those already in the UK, Access UK has launched for customers applying for tier 2 (work) and tier 4 (study) extensions and is preparing for further services to go online. UKVI is currently trialling the online service for some EEA applicants. As the programme matures we expect benefits to security, customer service and efficiencies to be identified and realised.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 45158 question first answered 13/09/2016 12:13:48 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

536704

registered interest
date	15/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
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 6 June 2016 to Question 38033, what assessment she has made of the increase in the number of family reunion applications that were refused in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	42941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>Each case is considered on its individual merits based on the evidence submitted by the applicant and their sponsor. We do not collate data on the individual reasons for refusals in every case.</p><p>The increase in absolute numbers of refusals of family reunion cases in 2014 and 2015 reflects in part the higher number of cases decided in those years.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 20/07/2016 13:38:34 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535278

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Families
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 collect regularly statistics on the (a) number of and (b) reasons for exceptional family reunion cases relating to children where indefinite leave to remain is granted at her discretion outside of the rules.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	42404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42276 42277 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535280

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will collect data on the reasons given for refusal of family reunion applications involving children and young people aged over 18 years of age.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	42276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42277 42404 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535281

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which exceptional circumstances applied to each grant of family reunion made outside the rules during the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	42277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42276 42404 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald