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1600719

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to biometric residence permits which were printed in the weeks commencing (a) 30 January 2023 and (b) 6 February 2023, what the average time taken was (i) from an immigration decision being made to a production request being submitted, (ii) from a production request being submitted to the permit being printed and (iii) from the permit being printed to the permit being received by the applicant.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	156938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The waiting times for biometric residence permits (BRP) are dictated by the BRP production and delivery processes. Regarding the individual production time of each BRP from the time a decision is made, the information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost<strong>.</strong></p><p>We aim to deliver a BRP within 7 working days of the immigration decision. BRPs are produced at the secure delivery facility (Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA)) within 48 hours of the production request being made and are collected by our secure delivery partner the same day. Our secure delivery partner aims to attempt to deliver the BRPs within 48 hours of receipt of the BRPs. This equates to a minimum of 5 working days from date of production request being made to delivery of the BRP. We have added an additional 2 working days to the timeline advised to applicants to allow us to resolve any production issues.</p><p>Since 1st April 2022, DVLA have produced all BRPs within 48 hours of the production request, with 97.7% being produced within 24 hours. Since 1st April 2022, our delivery partner attempted to deliver over 99% of BRPs within 48 hours, and delivered over 75% of BRPs successfully on first delivery attempt.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:05:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1600763

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
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 her Department has made of the impact of reductions in funding for fire and rescue services.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	157012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>Standalone fire and rescue authorities will see an increase in core spending power of 8.1 per cent in cash terms compared to 2022/23</p><p>In 2023-24 no referendum principles were set for Combined Authority Mayors, so the referendum limit for council tax does not apply to Greater Manchester Fire. This means that the Mayor can take a decision to increase council tax above the core referendum principle of £5 without triggering a local referendum.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/03/2023 11:48:29 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1600783

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Patrol Craft: UK Border Force
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 unplanned maintenance and repair of Border Force Cutters in each of the last five years as of 1 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	156934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>Vessels become non-operational either to rectify minor faults which only take a short period of time or because they are going into planned maintenance.</p><p>Border Force Maritime Command factor into the yearly budgets maintenance and repair costs to ensure our Maritime teams remain fully operational.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/03/2023 14:20:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1600785

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Mental Illness
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 is taking steps to help mitigate the risks posed to local people by asylum seekers with severe mental health issues in Bournemouth East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	156936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>The rise in the number of small boat crossings has placed significant pressures on local authorities and the asylum system.</p><p>We take the safety and welfare of those in our care seriously and the Home Office has robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure those in our accommodation are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Our providers are aware of the requirement to ensure that all service users are able to register with a local GP. During the induction process, which is carried out in multiple languages via the use of a translation service, the medical registration process is explained to all residents. This information is also displayed throughout the hotel. Staff at the hotel will support all residents to register with a GP practice. This extends to arranging appointments and transport to and from appointments if that is required. In the event of a medical situation that requires immediate attention, staff support by contacting 111 or 999 in an emergency.</p><p>Anyone granted asylum, temporary protection or humanitarian protection under the Immigration Rules of section 3 of the Immigration Act 1971 is recognised as a refugee and able to access all health care services, including mental health care services, exempt from charges.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to work to improve the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, including through work with representatives from DHSC, National Health Service, Devolved Administrations and Non-Governmental Organisations to consider approaches to mental health support. The Government will also continue to use our safeguarding networks to identify the most vulnerable users of the asylum system and engage with the appropriate statutory agencies to provide the support they need.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities has produced a Migrant Health Guide, which is a free-to-use, online resource designed to support primary care practitioners in caring for patients who have come to the UK from overseas. It includes information on asylum seekers entitlement to the NHS, guidance for assessing new patients, tailored health information specific to over 100 countries of origin and guidance on a range of communicable and non-communicable diseases and health issues.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/03/2023 10:51:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1600818

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 26 January 2023 to Question 129806 on Asylum: Children, whether she plans to launch an inquiry into missing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	156968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>When any young person goes missing the ‘missing persons protocol’ is followed and led by our directly engaged social workers. A multi-agency, missing persons protocol is mobilised involving the police and the local authority, who have a shared statutory responsibility to safeguard all children including missing migrant children in order to establish their whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe.</p><p>The MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed for any looked after child who goes missing from a care setting, including the unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) hotels.</p><p>The Home Office and Department for Education (DfE) have established a UASC taskforce which was convened in November 2022 which has been meeting regularly. This multiagency taskforce includes representatives for the Home Office, DfE, Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUCH), the Association of Directors if Children’s Services (ACDS) and the Local Government Association (LGA) to consider strategic and tactical solutions to the management of UASC. It is co-chaired by DfE Permanent Secretary, Susan Acland-Hood and Home Office Second Permanent Secretary, Patricia Hayes.</p><p>The Home Office will continue to address risks of young people going missing and work with partners to locate them if they do.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:07:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1600819

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 30 January 2023 to Question 129805 on Asylum: Children, whether her Department has a risk register on unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	156969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>We monitor risks towards unaccompanied asylum seeking children via a number of channels, including operational risk registers.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:13:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1600820

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abuse and Violence: Retail Trade
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 had recent discussions with (a) USDAW and (b) the British Retail Consortium on taking steps to help tackle abuse and violence towards retail workers; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	157054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violence and abuse towards any worker is not acceptable.</p><p>The Home Office continues to work closely with retailers, trade associations and the police through the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG). The NRCSG, which I co-chair with the British Retail Consortium (BRC), brings together Government, the retail industry and law enforcement in our response to tackle retail crime – especially focussing on tackling violence and abuse against retail workers. USDAW is an active member of this group.</p><p>The Home Office has been working with members of the NRCSG, through a number of Task and Finish groups, to produce resources to help prevent violence and abuse in retail settings, including resources to support victims when these crimes do occur. The published resources are all available on the NRCSG webpage on the BRC website here: <a href="https://brc.org.uk/nrcsg-against-shop-worker-abuse-and-violence/" target="_blank">Violence and Abuse Against Shop Workers (brc.org.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 08/03/2023 12:09:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1600821

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
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 30 January 2023 to Question 131189 on Asylum: Children, whether she plans to hold discussions with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees on missing asylum-seeking minors.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	156970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office engages with a range of internal and external stakeholders in relation to the provision of support and accommodation to destitute asylum seekers, through a variety of channels.</p><p> </p><p>UNHCR attend the Strategic Engagement Groups (SEG) which, together with the associated sub-groups, are the Home Office’s (HO) principal engagement forums with external asylum and resettlement Non-Government Organisations (NGO) and voluntary sector stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/03/2023 17:54:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1600835

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Correspondence
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 9 February 2023 to Question 140250 on Asylum: Correspondence, how many notices of intent were sent in 2022; and what estimate her Department has made of the number of such notices that will be issued in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	156971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of individuals issued a notice of intent and can be found online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/how-many-people-do-we-grant-protection-to#inadmissibility" target="_blank">How many people do we grant protection to? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Government is committed to tackling the ruthless criminal gangs who facilitate illegal immigration, risk lives and damage communities by smuggling people into the UK. The Government will be bringing forward legislation to make it unambiguously clear that, if you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here. Instead, you will be detained and promptly returned either to your home country or to a safe country where your asylum claim will be considered.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/03/2023 17:02:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1600838

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 28 February 2023 to Question 150499 on Refugees: Afghanistan, whether interviews remain part of security checks for Afghan refugees arriving through safe and legal routes; and what assessment her Department has made of the importance of interviews in ensuring a consistent level of security checks.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	156972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2023 answer text <p>All individuals applying to resettle in the UK undergo security checks and may be required to undertake an interview when additional checks, such as the need to establish their identity, are required. This includes those applying under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme. Further information on this is set out in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme-pathway-3-eligibility-for-british-council-and-gardaworld-contractors-and-chevening-alumni%23security-checks-providing-biometrics-and-travel&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAlexander.Wedgbury%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C690e615a79c340cbabb808dadea226a3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638067085252258296%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=wp24VPxzIqUB6YLeQX9ztmnAPHuJOF0MpVWz6677fs4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">GOV.UK guidance</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/03/2023 17:03:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra