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1309019

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Weddings: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to provide support for local authorities to waive the fee for a further notice of intention to marry for couples whose wedding ceremonies have been cancelled as a result of covid-19 restrictions.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	181067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government provides guidance on how to access the local government income compensation scheme for lost sales, fees and charges as a result of Covid -19.</p><p>This new, one-off income loss scheme will compensate local authorities for irrecoverable and unavoidable losses from sales, fees and charges income generated in the delivery of services in the last financial year</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 20/04/2021 16:31:28 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 97231 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1309039

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Passports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what feedback her Department has received on the quality of the manufacture and printing of new UK passports; and what estimate she has made of value for money in the award of the contract for the manufacture and printing of those passports.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The new British passport is a highly secure document containing some of the most sophisticated security technologies. Its components are rigorously tested to simulate normal passport handling over its ten-year lifespan.</p><p>Her Majesty's Passport Office undertakes routine quality assurance, and remains content the latest version of the British passport, including the personalisation process, continues to meet its requirements. The current contract to design, manufacture, and personalise the British passport continues to ensure good value for the taxpayer, with expected savings of approximately £140m compared to the previous contract awarded in 2009.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/04/2021 11:29:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1309228

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by the Home Secretary on 24 March (HC Deb, cols 921–36), what are the (1) family reunion rights, (2) associated timescales, for asylum seekers who are granted asylum, and (3) the family reunion rights for illegal arrivals from a safe country.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>The current family reunion policy allows a partner and children under 18 of those granted protection in the UK to join them here, if they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country. Over 29,000 visas have been issued under this route in the last 5 years.</p><p>Currently, a person is eligible to sponsor a family reunion application as soon as they have been granted refugee status or humanitarian protection. There is no limit or timescale when they stop becoming eligible, other than if they become naturalised and obtain British citizenship. Once someone overseas applies for a family reunion visa, our customer service standard is 60 UK working days for straightforward cases.</p><p>As set out in the New Plan for Immigration policy statement published on 24 March, we are committed to review the refugee family reunion routes available to refugees who have arrived through safe and legal routes. Subject to considering consultation responses, those who are granted the new temporary protection status are proposed to have limited family reunion rights.</p><p>We have initiated a comprehensive consultation and engagement process which is open now until 6 May. We will use this opportunity to listen to a wide range of views from stakeholders across the sector, as well as members of the public. All policy development will be undertaken in line with the law, including our equalities duties and international obligations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 26/04/2021 16:01:39 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1308917

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Extradition: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that EU nations continue to extradite criminals to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the ‘TCA’) delivers a comprehensive package of capabilities which ensures we can work with counterparts across Europe to tackle serious crime and terrorism – protecting the public and bringing criminals to justice. This includes streamlined extradition arrangements</p><p>Some EU Member States have long-held constitutional bars against the extradition of their own nationals to non-EU countries, which is why the TCA allows for offenders to face justice via another route, even where a country will not extradite their own nationals.</p><p>Where someone has been sentenced, if they are arrested in their state of nationality, the authorities there may decide to enforce the sentence at home.</p><p>For those wanted to face a trial the Agreement provides for a mechanism where a person could be extradited, face trial, and then be returned to serve their sentence. If this is not available, a State is able to refer the case to its own prosecution authorities. In these cases the Agreement establishes an obligation to provide appropriate support to victims and witnesses.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/04/2021 12:02:45 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1309080

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Females
	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 has taken to support women and girls against domestic abuse during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	181024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2021 answer text <p>There is no place for domestic abuse in our society. Home should be a safe place, but for many people sadly this is not the case. That is why this government is committed to ensuring that those who are experiencing harm or living in fear of abuse at home are able to seek support and refuge.</p><p>We know that victims of domestic abuse may feel particularly vulnerable at this time, which is why last year the Government launched our #YouAreNotAlone awareness raising campaign to signpost support available. The campaign has reached over 30 million UK adults and has been seen by over 130 million followers on social media.</p><p>In January, we also launched the ‘Ask for ANI’ Codeword scheme to enable domestic abuse victims to seek victim focussed support, including engagement with specialist victim support services and the police as necessary. Over 5,000 pharmacies across the nation are now participating in the scheme, and the scheme has been used by over 60 victims and survivors.</p><p>We have provided unprecedented new funding to victim support services to ensure that they have the capacity to provide support to victims and adapt their operational capacity in light of the impacts of the Pandemic. To that end we have awarded £27 million in additional funds to support domestic abuse services last financial year alone, comprising £25 million from the government’s £76 million in emergency funding for the most vulnerable in society, and an extra £2 million from the Home Office in April 2021 to bolster the capacity of domestic abuse organisations affected by the pandemic.</p><p>In November 2020 we announced a further £11 million towards a range of services offering practical and emotional help – allowing domestic abuse and specialist rape organisations to recruit more staff, adapt to remote counselling methods during the pandemic and keep helplines open for longer. This funding extends all the way into March of this year, covering the most recent period of national lockdown restrictions.</p><p>This financial year the Ministry of Justice has also announced in February that victims of rape and domestic abuse will be helped by a major £40m funding boost for specialist support services.</p><p>We continue to work closely with the police, victim support services and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner to better understand the scale of harm and how best to support victims throughout the Pandemic, and our transition out of social distancing measures.</p><p>Our landmark Domestic Abuse Bill - due to achieve Royal Assent this Spring - will further strengthen our response to perpetrators and improve our protection to victims, as will the publication of our domestic abuse strategy and linked violence against women and girls strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/04/2021 15:23:48 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1309159

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Citizenship
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Great Britain have been (i) granted and (ii) refused renunciation of their British citizenship in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	North Dorset
	tabling member printed	Simon Hoare
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	181065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes UK data on renunciations of British Nationality in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p>Data on grants and refusals for renunciations of British Nationality are published in table Cit_05 of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/961755/citizenship-summary-dec-2020-tables.xlsx" target="_blank">Citizenship summary tables, year ending December 2020 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> dataset. The latest data relates to year ending December 2020.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on renunciations of British Nationality by location or country of residence, and so a breakdown of the data is not available for separate nations of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/04/2021 16:28:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare

1309188

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers with school-age children are currently housed in contingency accommodation; and how long they expect it will be before such asylum seekers are allocated dispersal accommodation.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Migrant Help provide a helpline available to asylum seekers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, service levels for the services they provide can be found in their contract at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/028be8bb-3c69-494d-bfdd-59c2e1b34379?p=@UFQxUlRRPT0=NjJNT08=. Migrant Help performance is monitored during monthly Contract Management Groups and quarterly Strategic Relationship Management Boards.</p><p>Details of the accommodation requirements can be found online at www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk. A link to the contract for the North East, Yorkshire &amp; Humber region is at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/24c6a868-8e1a-4775-8d4f-ab750854d367</p><p>We do not publish data on the number of asylum seekers living in contingency accommodation. However, when a family is accommodated at a hotel, they are prioritised for dispersal to ensure the children can settle in more permanent accommodation and attend school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL14914 HL14915 question first answered 28/04/2021 13:11:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1309189

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there is a list of requirements that dispersal accommodation must meet.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Migrant Help provide a helpline available to asylum seekers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, service levels for the services they provide can be found in their contract at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/028be8bb-3c69-494d-bfdd-59c2e1b34379?p=@UFQxUlRRPT0=NjJNT08=. Migrant Help performance is monitored during monthly Contract Management Groups and quarterly Strategic Relationship Management Boards.</p><p>Details of the accommodation requirements can be found online at www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk. A link to the contract for the North East, Yorkshire &amp; Humber region is at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/24c6a868-8e1a-4775-8d4f-ab750854d367</p><p>We do not publish data on the number of asylum seekers living in contingency accommodation. However, when a family is accommodated at a hotel, they are prioritised for dispersal to ensure the children can settle in more permanent accommodation and attend school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL14913 HL14915 question first answered 28/04/2021 13:11:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1309190

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what requirements they have established with Migrant Help (1) to log and record every call made to the service by asylum seekers in contingency accommodation, and (2) to set a target time for responding to issues raised in these calls, as part of its contracts with that charity; and what assessment they have made of whether Migrant Help is fulfilling any such requirements in carrying out such contracts.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Migrant Help provide a helpline available to asylum seekers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, service levels for the services they provide can be found in their contract at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/028be8bb-3c69-494d-bfdd-59c2e1b34379?p=@UFQxUlRRPT0=NjJNT08=. Migrant Help performance is monitored during monthly Contract Management Groups and quarterly Strategic Relationship Management Boards.</p><p>Details of the accommodation requirements can be found online at www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk. A link to the contract for the North East, Yorkshire &amp; Humber region is at https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/24c6a868-8e1a-4775-8d4f-ab750854d367</p><p>We do not publish data on the number of asylum seekers living in contingency accommodation. However, when a family is accommodated at a hotel, they are prioritised for dispersal to ensure the children can settle in more permanent accommodation and attend school.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL14913 HL14914 question first answered 28/04/2021 13:11:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

1309084

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	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 reinstate face to face interviews for asylum and refugee applications.
	tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
	tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>We recommenced face to face substantive interviews on 21 September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/04/2021 11:52:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti