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1238056

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department plans to take to build on the work of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on grooming gangs.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	906719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping children and young people safe from all forms of abuse.</p><p>The Inquiry’s investigation into child sexual exploitation by organised networks is ongoing. We will consider the Inquiry’s findings when they are published.</p><p>Our work to tackle this heinous crime continues, in the meantime, as I saw for myself when meeting victims in Rotherham recently. We will publish a strategy this year, setting out our plans to tackle all forms of child sexual abuse, including grooming gangs.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/09/2020 15:17:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

1238057

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If she will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on ensuring public understanding of covid-19 lockdown regulations and legislation.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	906720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>Everyone is making huge sacrifices in the fight against coronavirus, but, the recent worrying rise in cases means we are not out of the woods yet. The work of the Home Office is critical in protecting and serving our citizens. Ensuring everyone follows the rules is vital to controlling the virus this winter.</p><p>Across Cabinet and Government we have been clear on regulations and have enshrined them in law. Engagement, explaining and enforcement of those laws will be provided by the police and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 28/09/2020 15:20:40 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1238058

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of trends in the time taken by UK Visas and Immigration to process one-year visa extensions for healthcare workers.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	906724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>Mr Speaker, I would like, with your permission to group questions 30 and 31.</p><p>Up till close on Friday, provisional management information shows we have concluded 5,954 free extensions for eligible healthcare workers and dependents.</p><p>On average, straightforward cases have been concluded within four weeks of receiving necessary information from employers to enable the extension to be undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/09/2020 15:22:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1238059

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of trends in the time taken by UK Visas and Immigration to process one-year visa extensions for healthcare workers.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	906733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>Mr Speaker, I would like, with your permission to group questions 30 and 31.</p><p>Up till close on Friday, provisional management information shows we have concluded 5,954 free extensions for eligible healthcare workers and dependents.</p><p>On average, straightforward cases have been concluded within four weeks of receiving necessary information from employers to enable the extension to be undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/09/2020 15:23:29 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1238060

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	What recent progress her Department has made on reducing the time it takes to process passport applications.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	906730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>The measures put in place to increase capacity for processing passport applications have successfully helped to reduce turnaround times.</p><p>This includes rolling out a new system which increases the ability to process applications from home, and which is now processing almost 60 per cent of UK digital applications.</p><p>On 23 September, the median processing time for passport applications received from the UK was 8 working days<strong>. </strong></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/09/2020 15:24:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1238061

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to protect people seeking asylum from homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	906736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office has a statutory obligation to house asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, and we have met that obligation during the national crisis.</p><p>During lockdown we procured additional accommodation to ensure asylum seekers avoid homelessness despite increases in the asylum population following our decision to allow people who would ordinarily leave the asylum estate to remain.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 28/09/2020 15:25:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1238062

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What additional funding her Department plans to provide to ensure that police forces have the capacity to enforce localised covid-19 lockdowns in addition to carrying out their other duties.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mike Hill
uin	906738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>The Home Secretary promised to stand behind the men and women of our Police to give them the resources, powers and funding they need to keep the British public safe and we are working with all police forces to capture the additional financial pressures they are experiencing as a result of COVID-19.</p><p>We will issue further detail of the support package we are providing as soon as possible.</p><p>The police funding settlement for 2020/21 set out that £168m of the additional funding for recruitment this year would be ringfenced and paid to forces. It has been agreed that half of this funding (£84m) will be flexed to allow for expenditure on both COVID-19 related pressures and continued Police Uplift Programme recruitment activity in light of the current circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/09/2020 15:26:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4644 label Biography information for Mike Hill

1238063

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Orgreave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an independent inquiry into the policing of the miners' strike in 1984-85.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	906757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>There are no plans to undertake an assessment of the potential merits of establishing an independent inquiry into the policing of the miners’ strike in 1984-85 in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/09/2020 15:28:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1238064

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) the Scottish Government on the economic effect on businesses of the UK Internal Market Bill.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	John Nicolson
uin	906811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>Ministers have clearly set out the benefits to all UK businesses of ensuring goods and services can flow freely across the UK: this is in Scotland’s interests given it exports more to the rest of the UK than the EU.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 29/09/2020 12:19:05 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4415 label Biography information for John Nicolson

1238185

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Sri Lanka: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will review his Department's defence engagement programme with Sri Lanka in light of reported human rights abuses in that country.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	96093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Our Defence Engagement programme with Sri Lanka is to encourage the development of a modern, accountable and human rights compliant military. Promoting adherence to international humanitarian law and human rights compliance is integral to our engagement. We constantly review our relationship with the Government of Sri Lanka and continuously monitor the context and viability of the approach, to ensure that UK assistance and engagement is in line with our values and is consistent with our domestic and international human rights obligations.</p><p>The UK Government will continue to work with international partners and press for truth, reconciliation, accountability and justice following the conflict in Sri Lanka, to ensure all communities can live peacefully.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 01/10/2020 07:32:58 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire