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1503642

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Care Workers: Visas
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 have entered the UK on the new Health and Social Care Visa as (a) care workers and home carers and (b) senior care workers since that visa was introduced in August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	45193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C609f017d090e4166708a08da8f4a143f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637979845570488890%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=V9GQp4NkP%2FCYF3bQBXnv4qqpthggh5Mxqzw93Gf0%2BOc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of granted applications regarding the Health and Care visa are published in table Vis_D02 of the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1098966%2Fentry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-jun-2022.xlsx%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldWorkRoutes.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C609f017d090e4166708a08da8f4a143f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637979845570488890%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NE2HR2LN8z5tfzjwpE6JS3fTuZS2JQ8yvIqhuzXSLMU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">entry clearance visas applications and outcomes</a> dataset.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2022 17:00:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 17561 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1503856

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
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 15 June 2022 to Question 9025 on Visas: Ukraine, for what reason her Department is not publishing data on the number of applications which have been made under the Ukrainian Extension Scheme; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	45449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The latest figures on the number of applications processed under the Ukraine Schemes, including the Ukraine Extension Scheme, can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukraine-family-scheme-application-data/ukraine-family-scheme-and-ukraine-sponsorship-scheme-homes-for-ukraine-visa-data--2" target="_blank">Ukraine Family Scheme, Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (Homes for Ukraine) and Ukraine Extension Scheme visa data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/09/2022 15:31:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1503858

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of the expansion of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme for Labour Market Enforcement's resourcing and work plans.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	45452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to further expand the Seasonal Worker immigration route.</p><p>The Government has made no estimate of the number of seasonal workers working in Scotland by labour provider as of 1 August 2022, nor do we plan to make an estimate of the number of farms in Scotland with workers employed on the seasonal worker visa scheme; and the number of farms in Scotland with each labour provider. The UK operates a national immigration system and does not gather such information by devolved region.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 45847 45848 question first answered 20/09/2022 15:29:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1504034

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EEA Nationals
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 make it her policy to exempt carriers from section 40 charges under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in relation to EEA nationals who travel to the UK on a valid passport or national identity card.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	45845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>Carriers are responsible for ensuring that passengers are properly documented for travel to the UK or they may be liable to a carrier’s liability charge. These charges never apply to the carriage of correctly documented passengers, regardless of their nationality or the documentation they hold.</p><p> </p><p>Since 1 October 2021, EU, other EEA and Swiss national citizens (with the exception of those who have protected rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement and equivalent agreements) have been required to use a passport to enter the UK rather than a national identity card. We do not currently impose carriers’ liability charges on carriers bringing people to the UK incorrectly travelling on an identity card. This will change in the future as the rollout of our future border and immigration system will increasingly support interactive messaging with carriers to inform them what documentation is acceptable on an individual passenger basis.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2022 16:57:11 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 17546 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1490989

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether regulations or guidelines are in place to ensure that agricultural workers on the Seasonal Worker visa (a) are not expected to work in unsafe or dangerous conditions during extreme temperatures and (b) do not suffer from a loss of earnings in the event that weather extremes prevent them from working.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	40808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Agricultural workers on the Seasonal Worker visa enjoy the same rights and protections as settled workers in the UK.</p><p>Sponsors, and by extension the growers hosting these workers, also have a duty of care to their workers and are expected to comply with the sponsor guidance which requires them to give workers time off, proper breaks, and to ensure the workers’ work environment is safe and complies with relevant Health and Safety requirements. Non-compliance with the guidance could result in the revocation of their sponsor license.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 08:56:51 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1483349

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his policy is on funding any potential shortfall in rent in the event that Afghans resettled under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme are placed in properties where the rent is higher than the Local Housing Allowance rate.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	25889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>A £25.5 million Housing Costs Fund is available to local authorities to help meet the costs of housing for larger families being resettled through the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), and for those who arrived in the UK before 31 August 2021 via the evacuation from Afghanistan and are being resettled through the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), or are British Nationals being provided with resettlement support. The additional housing support is being provided to enable local authorities to come forward with offers of accommodation to larger families as soon as possible. For example, it can be used to provide a top-up payment, where it is needed to meet the gap between market rent and the Local Housing Allowance, or to help meet shortfalls which impact on a family's ability to cover their rent.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 05/07/2022 14:59:59 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1483352

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
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 the guidance document Affordability fee waiver: Citizenship registration for individuals under the age of 18, published on 26 May 2022, for what reasons her policy objectives in that assessment do not include reference to the objective in the British Nationality Act 1981 that British citizenship is held by all persons sharing connection to the UK; and whether it is her Department's policy for that objective to be met through the Citizenship registration process for individuals under the age of 18.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	25890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The guidance ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/citizenship-fee-waiver-for-individuals-under-18-caseworker-guidance" target="_blank">Applications for a citizenship fee waiver for individuals under the age of 18</a>’ sets out the policy on applications that may be eligible for a fee waiver or exception, not the Home Office’s overarching nationality policy.</p><p>The registration provisions within the BNA 1981 allow for children with a close connection to the UK to be registered as a British citizen. The Home Office’s Nationality policy is published on gov.uk and guidance on citizenship can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/british-citizenship-nationality-guidance" target="_blank">British citizenship (nationality guidance) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 30/06/2022 14:38:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1469566

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ukraine: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	900437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Defence continues to play a leading role in helping Ukraine defend its territorial integrity, working with Allies and partners to support Ukraine’s right to be a sovereign, independent and democratic nation.</p><p> </p><p>We are providing lethal and non-lethal military aid to meet Ukrainian Armed Forces’ requests for assistance and coordinating the provision of additional military support from our Allies and partners to enable Ukraine to repel Russian aggression.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/06/2022 16:35:24 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1467399

registered interest
date	01/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to amend the British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/548 to give effect to the intention in the Affordability fee waiver: Citizenship registration for individuals under the age of 18, guidance published on 26 May 2022, that a child’s application for registration as a British citizen is to be treated as made on the date the child request a waiver of the fee for making that application.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	11708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The British Nationality Regulations 2003 state a nationality application must contain the person’s name, date and place of birth, and a declaration that the contents are true. This information is contained in a fee waiver request and can be treated as an application for citizenship on the date it is made. No change to the 2003 Regulations is therefore required.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 16:04:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1467449

registered interest
date	01/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: British National (Overseas)
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 the Answer of 25 April 2019 to Question 245815, when British National (Overseas) Passport Holders from Hong Kong will be able to use the United Kingdom’s e-passport gates.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	11709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>Our vision for the future of the border, including the roll out of Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs), includes increasing the number of passengers who can be checked on arrival by an automated process, rather than needing to speak with an Immigration Officer on arrival.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/06/2022 10:00:57 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 5704 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald