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886176

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department's Case Information Database retains copies of (a) landing cards and (b) microfilm numbers on an electronic database in cases where the Landing Card Unit destroyed physical landing cards.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2018 answer text <p>Physical landing cards are not retained. These are routinely disposed of once statistical and biographic data has been recorded.</p><p>Landing cards that were previously scanned onto microfiche, are now scanned onto PDF format and DVD. The statistical and biographic data is then entered onto the Home Office’s Case Information Database. Scanned data is retained for 15 years.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 03/09/2018 14:56:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886177

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many landing cards have been destroyed in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/08/2018 answer text <p>There are two different types of landing cards, “non-controlled” or “controlled”. Non-controlled cards (which account for c.95% of all non-EEA arrivals in 2016) are kept for a maximum of 28 days before they are destroyed.</p><p>Controlled cards relate mainly to those passengers who arrive in the UK for non-visit purposes such as settlement and this data is retained for 15 years.</p><p>We do not record centrally the number of landing cards destroyed.</p><p>The available published information on the number of non-EEA nationals entering the UK is published in Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2018, Admission table ad_01 available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709292/admissions-mar-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709292/admissions-mar-2018-tables.ods</a></p><p>During the period 2010 to 2017 the number of non-EEA passengers granted leave to enter the UK was more than 118 million.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/08/2018 09:44:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886178

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children of Windrush Generation immigrants have been deported in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The department has been reviewing the cases of all Caribbean Commonwealth nationals, born before 1 January 1973, who have been removed and/or detained by the Home Office since 2002 (when the Casework Information Database (CID) was available across the immigration system) to identify any individuals where there was an indication in the record that the individual could have been in the UK before 1973.</p><p>The Home Secretary wrote to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 August to provide an update on this work. Letters of apology are being sent from the Home Secretary to the eighteen individuals who we consider are most likely to have suffered detriment because their right to be in the UK was not recognised and where the Department is most likely to have acted wrongfully in removing and / or detaining them. A copy of this letter has been deposited in the House Library.</p><p>This work is ongoing and the Home Secretary committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on this work, as well as the review into proactive compliant environment sanctions.</p><p>Children of the Windrush generation who were born in the United Kingdom will generally consider themselves to be British. However, in some cases they may need a document to confirm that status. Others will have the right to register as British. This is being facilitated through the Windrush taskforce. Additionally, any child of a member of the Windrush generation who was born abroad and who came to live in the UK before they were 18 and has been continuously resident and meets the good character requirements may apply to obtain citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 136374 136376 136394 question first answered 06/09/2018 15:18:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886179

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children of Windrush generation migrants have been (a) detained in immigration detention centres, (b) denied access to healthcare, (c) denied access to benefits and (d) stripped of their right to work in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The department has been reviewing the cases of all Caribbean Commonwealth nationals, born before 1 January 1973, who have been removed and/or detained by the Home Office since 2002 (when the Casework Information Database (CID) was available across the immigration system) to identify any individuals where there was an indication in the record that the individual could have been in the UK before 1973.</p><p>The Home Secretary wrote to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 August to provide an update on this work. Letters of apology are being sent from the Home Secretary to the eighteen individuals who we consider are most likely to have suffered detriment because their right to be in the UK was not recognised and where the Department is most likely to have acted wrongfully in removing and / or detaining them. A copy of this letter has been deposited in the House Library.</p><p>This work is ongoing and the Home Secretary committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on this work, as well as the review into proactive compliant environment sanctions.</p><p>Children of the Windrush generation who were born in the United Kingdom will generally consider themselves to be British. However, in some cases they may need a document to confirm that status. Others will have the right to register as British. This is being facilitated through the Windrush taskforce. Additionally, any child of a member of the Windrush generation who was born abroad and who came to live in the UK before they were 18 and has been continuously resident and meets the good character requirements may apply to obtain citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 136373 136376 136394 question first answered 06/09/2018 15:18:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886181

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Generation children have been subject to reporting requirements as a result of her Department classifying their immigration status as uncertain.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The department has been reviewing the cases of all Caribbean Commonwealth nationals, born before 1 January 1973, who have been removed and/or detained by the Home Office since 2002 (when the Casework Information Database (CID) was available across the immigration system) to identify any individuals where there was an indication in the record that the individual could have been in the UK before 1973.</p><p>The Home Secretary wrote to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 August to provide an update on this work. Letters of apology are being sent from the Home Secretary to the eighteen individuals who we consider are most likely to have suffered detriment because their right to be in the UK was not recognised and where the Department is most likely to have acted wrongfully in removing and / or detaining them. A copy of this letter has been deposited in the House Library.</p><p>This work is ongoing and the Home Secretary committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on this work, as well as the review into proactive compliant environment sanctions.</p><p>Children of the Windrush generation who were born in the United Kingdom will generally consider themselves to be British. However, in some cases they may need a document to confirm that status. Others will have the right to register as British. This is being facilitated through the Windrush taskforce. Additionally, any child of a member of the Windrush generation who was born abroad and who came to live in the UK before they were 18 and has been continuously resident and meets the good character requirements may apply to obtain citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 136373 136374 136394 question first answered 06/09/2018 15:18:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886193

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department,how many staff will be working in the newly established Windrush Generation task force; from which parts of (a) her Department and (b) other Government Departments they have been seconded; and what the timetable is for the task force to complete its work.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>The team was initially set up with 20 staff members. The number of staff deployed to the team will be driven by the number of people that contact the Department for help. Additional experienced staff can be deployed from within the Department should the need arise.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/07/2018 11:11:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886195

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush children have paid (a) legal fees and (b) documentation fees as a result of (i) the Government's hostile environment policies in respect of immigration status and (ii) proving their immigration status; and how much was spent on those fees in each of the last 8 years.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on legal fees paid. If children of the Windrush generation have been adversely affected by immigration enforcement measures because they have not been able to evidence their status that they should have been entitled to, they will be able to make that case to the independent compensation scheme which the Home Office will be setting up.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/05/2018 16:44:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886199

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to review all cases involving the (a) deportation and (b) detention of a Windrush generation child.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The department has been reviewing the cases of all Caribbean Commonwealth nationals, born before 1 January 1973, who have been removed and/or detained by the Home Office since 2002 (when the Casework Information Database (CID) was available across the immigration system) to identify any individuals where there was an indication in the record that the individual could have been in the UK before 1973.</p><p>The Home Secretary wrote to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 21 August to provide an update on this work. Letters of apology are being sent from the Home Secretary to the eighteen individuals who we consider are most likely to have suffered detriment because their right to be in the UK was not recognised and where the Department is most likely to have acted wrongfully in removing and / or detaining them. A copy of this letter has been deposited in the House Library.</p><p>This work is ongoing and the Home Secretary committed to regularly updating the Home Affairs Select Committee on this work, as well as the review into proactive compliant environment sanctions.</p><p>Children of the Windrush generation who were born in the United Kingdom will generally consider themselves to be British. However, in some cases they may need a document to confirm that status. Others will have the right to register as British. This is being facilitated through the Windrush taskforce. Additionally, any child of a member of the Windrush generation who was born abroad and who came to live in the UK before they were 18 and has been continuously resident and meets the good character requirements may apply to obtain citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 136373 136374 136376 question first answered 06/09/2018 15:18:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

886203

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated for the compensation of Windrush generation children for (a) legal costs and (b) other fees incurred in proving their immigration status; and whether that compensation will be available retrospectively for those who have already paid such fees.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	136398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office will be setting up a new scheme to deliver this which will be run independently. I will set out further details and will consult around its scope and how people will be able to access it in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/05/2018 16:46:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy