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1464125

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications are (a) outstanding and (b) remain unprocessed for more than ten weeks.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	4446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>Since April 2021, people have been advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their British passport as more than 5 million people delayed applying due to the pandemic. 98.6% of all passport applications are dealt well within 10 weeks and we are processing around 250,000 per week,</p><p> </p><p>A British passport cannot be issued until all checks are satisfactorily completed to ensure the applicant is entitled to hold one. If further information is required to enable an application to be progressed, then it will take longer.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 08:00:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2235 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1464126

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of outstanding passport applications.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	4447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Ahead of unrestricted international travel returning, HM Passport Office prepared extensively to serve an unprecedented number of customers, with 9.5 million British passport applications forecasted throughout 2022.</p><p>These preparations have ensured that passport applications can be processed in higher numbers than ever before. Across March and April 2022, HM Passport Office completed the processing of approximately two million applications.</p><p>Ministers continue to meet regularly with officials to monitor performance, and to explore further options that will help to ensure that people receive their passports in good time.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/05/2022 09:20:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2234 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1464128

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Remote Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of staff in the Passport Office working from home as of 18 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	4448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>For staff where they role can only be performed from an office, they will continue to work from a Home Office building at all times.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office operational teams securely process passport applications both working from an office and through the use of homeworking solutions. Passport Applications are being processed in higher numbers than ever before. Across March and April 2022, HM Passport Office completed the processing of approximately two million applications.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/05/2022 09:39:06 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2246 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1334161

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nature Conservation: Seized Articles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many items have been seized under the terms of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	15161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>The total number of seizures from Quarter One of 2015 to Quarter One of 2020 is 5,136 items.</p><p>Seizures relating to products related to the Convention of international trade of endangered species (CITES), are published quarterly on the.gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/06/2021 11:48:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1334162

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on helping to prevent the illegal wildlife trade in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	15162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>Since 2016, the Home Office has provided £136,000 annually to the National Wildlife Crime Unit to bolster work preventing wildlife crime both domestically and internationally.</p><p>Going forward, all decisions on government funding will be taken as part of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/06/2021 11:36:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1247267

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal immigrants have been apprehended while entering the UK in each of the 12 months from September (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	109130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.</p><p>Information about enforcement operations is not available in our published data.</p><p>Our published data is available at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2020</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2020</a></p><p>Details on the number of people who have crossed the Channel in small boats between January 2018 and June 2020 was published, via a letter from the Home Secretary to the Home Affairs Select Committee, in September 2020.</p><p>The information is available at: <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2333/documents/22962/default/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2333/documents/22962/default/</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/11/2020 13:39:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1197579

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: NHS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the annual value of the health service charges that her Department collects from immigrants working the the NHS and social care services in each of the last two years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	49570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate or publish the information requested.</p><p>Income generated by Immigration Health Surcharge payments go directly to NHS services, helping to protect and sustain our world-class healthcare system for everyone who uses it.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 02/06/2020 12:49:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1189282

registered interest
date	22/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Wildlife Crime Unit: Finance
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 (a) place funding for the national wildlife crime unit on a permanent basis and (b) allocate to that unit sufficient funding to support the effective investigation of wildlife crimes.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	38862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office is providing funding of £136,000 to support the work of the National Wildlife Crime Unit in 2020/21. This will be in addition to the funding central Government is providing to police forces in England and Wales to tackle all types of crime, including wildlife crime.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions about Home Office funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit beyond March 2021 will be taken as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/05/2020 16:30:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1180177

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Catering and Hospitality Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the additional costs to be borne by the (a) catering and (b) hospitality industries as a result of the Government's proposals to limit low-skilled workers from (i) the EU and (ii) overseas.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	19728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>This Government will reduce lower skilled migration. Free movement is ending, and we will not simply replicate it in a future system.</p><p>We need to shift the focus of our economy away from a reliance on cheap labour from Europe and immigration must also be considered alongside investment in technology, innovation, automation and the development of the UK’s domestic labour force.</p><p>Employers need to focus on investing in the people already here and make jobs more attractive for UK workers.</p><p>Businesses can continue to be able to rely on those EU/EEA nationals living in the UK with settled or pre-settled status and those who come to the UK through youth mobility schemes.</p><p>We are also committed to quadrupling the Seasonal Workers scheme for agriculture for non EEA nationals from 2,500 to 10,000 places.</p><p>As the future system is developed we will continue to engage with stakeholders form a range of industries and take advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 19729 question first answered 11/03/2020 19:23:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1180178

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Catering and Hospitality Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure an adequate supply of labour for the (i) catering and (ii) hospitality industries after the introduction of controls on low-skilled workers from the (A) EU and (B) overseas.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	19729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>This Government will reduce lower skilled migration. Free movement is ending, and we will not simply replicate it in a future system.</p><p>We need to shift the focus of our economy away from a reliance on cheap labour from Europe and immigration must also be considered alongside investment in technology, innovation, automation and the development of the UK’s domestic labour force.</p><p>Employers need to focus on investing in the people already here and make jobs more attractive for UK workers.</p><p>Businesses can continue to be able to rely on those EU/EEA nationals living in the UK with settled or pre-settled status and those who come to the UK through youth mobility schemes.</p><p>We are also committed to quadrupling the Seasonal Workers scheme for agriculture for non EEA nationals from 2,500 to 10,000 places.</p><p>As the future system is developed we will continue to engage with stakeholders form a range of industries and take advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 19728 question first answered 11/03/2020 19:23:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale