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1717911

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date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: ICT
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 Minister for Legal Migration and the Border's Oral Statement of 8 May 2024 on Passport e-Gates Network Outage, Official Report, column 592, if he will publish a report of the investigations into the failure of passport e-gates on 7 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	26166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>It has never been Government practice, for reasons of law enforcement, to comment on operational issues relating to border security and immigration controls. This includes offering commentary on the performance of border systems and of ePassport Gates data specifically.</p><p>The Home Office has a number of contingency arrangements in the event of a system failure, including technical and business contingency measures.</p><p>In the UK, all arriving passengers need to establish their eligibility for admission. Every passenger is required to establish their nationality and identity. To maintain a safe and secure border, a passenger’s passport or national identity card is checked electronically. The eGates and face-to-face checks are two methods of conducting the same process.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/05/2024 12:41:49 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1343353

registered interest
date	02/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Au Pairs: EU Nationals
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 1 July 2021 to Question 10664, with how many countries she has started to negotiate the Youth Mobility Scheme arrangement for au pairs.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	26166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>We remain open to negotiating Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) arrangements with other countries and territories, including the EU or nations within it. However, we are unable to disclose the status of negotiations as they occur, further details of additional YMS agreements will be announced once they are concluded.</p><p>We currently have nine YMS agreements with countries and territories across the world, which enable over 20,000 young people to travel to the UK each year. YMS visa holders have a general right to work across the economy and are not limited to undertaking a role as an au pair.</p><p>As has been the case since 2008, the UK’s immigration system will not offer a dedicated route for au pairs and this Government will not look to create one.</p><p>Our YMS agreements provide a valuable route for mutual cultural exchange and are not simply a one-way route for recruiting from overseas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/07/2021 16:11:31 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1183255

registered interest
date	06/03/2020
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Bees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the bee population in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	26166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>Each year, the Government publishes an indicator of trends in populations of wild bees and other pollinators in the UK, measuring changes in the distribution of almost 400 pollinating insect species since 1980, including 137 species of bees. The indicator shows an overall long term decline since 1980. However, from 2013 onwards, there is evidence of an overall increase in the distribution of bee species, although other insect pollinators have continued to decline.</p><p>The National Bee Unit at Defra also maintains a registration system for honey bees and beekeeping in the UK on its ‘BeeBase’ website. Registration is voluntary so it is difficult to provide exact figures on honey bee populations, but it suggests that activity in the beekeeping sector and consequently honey bee numbers are increasing. Colonies recorded on BeeBase increased from 108,649 in 2009 to 212,054 in 2019.</p><p>Since 2014 we have been working with a range of partners to implement a National Pollinator Strategy to address declines in wild pollinators and concerns about bee health. This has included establishing a UK-wide pollinator monitoring and research partnership in collaboration with research institutes and volunteer organisations to gather further data on the status of UK pollinators.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/03/2020 14:08:14 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

451208

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Royal Photographic Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has been consulted on the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society's collection from the National Media Museum to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	26166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>DCMS museums operate at arm’s length from government and the transfer of objects between national museums is a matter for the boards of the museums. The Trustees of the Science Museum approved the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society’s collection to the V&amp;A, and the Royal Photographic Society also approve of the transfer. The Department was informed in December 2015.</p><p>The V&amp;A intend to store, digitise and make the photographic collection available as part of its planned International Photography Resource Centre, which will provide the public with a world-class facility to access the consolidated collection.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 24/02/2016 13:54:59 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah