Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to increase access to resettlement to the UK for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring countries who are at risk and cannot return to Sudan.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Over 300 Sudanese nationals have been resettled in the UK through our refugee resettlement schemes.
The UK resettlement schemes are not application based; instead, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refers individuals for resettlement in accordance with their standard resettlement submission criteria. These are based on an assessment of protection needs or vulnerabilities. The UK does not seek to intervene in or influence UNHCR’s established selection processes.
Asked by: Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress of the Independent Office of Police Conduct in pursuing gross misconduct charges arising from Operation Midland.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
Disciplinary proceedings concerning Operation Midland remain ongoing and it would therefore be inappropriate for the Government to comment while that remains the case.
Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to repeal the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 and, if so, when.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary set out the government’s position in respect of the Illegal Migration Act in her statement to the house on 22nd July 2024. Any legislative plans flowing from the statement will be set out in the normal way in due course.
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) names and (b) addresses are of all test centres used for the Life in the UK Test.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The full list of Life in the UK test centres as of 10 September 2024 is as follows:
Name of test centre | Address | Town/City | Postcode |
PSI @ North East Scotland College | Ground Floor, North East Scotland College, Gallowgate | Aberdeen | AB25 1BN |
People 1st Belfast | Rosemont, 89 Malone Road, | Belfast | BT9 6SP |
PSI Birmingham | Gateway House, 3rd Floor, 50-53 High Street | Birmingham | B4 7SY |
Community Training Portal Blackburn | Suite 15, Kings Court, Kings Street, | Blackburn | BB2 2DH |
MTS@Vantage Point, Brighton | 7th floor, Vantage Point, New England Rd, Brighton | Brighton | BN1 4GW |
Pitman/go train Bristol | Unit 9, Hide Market, Waterloo Road, St Philips | Bristol | BS2 0PL |
MTS Cardiff | 5th Floor, 5-7 Market Chambers, 5-7 St Marys Street | Cardiff | CF10 1AT |
MTS Coventry | 1st floor, 101 Lockhurst Lane | Coventry | CV6 5SF |
PSI Croydon | 8th Floor, Grosvenor House, 125 High Street | Croydon | CR0 9XP |
MTS @ Edinburgh | 40 Sciennes, Newington | Edinburgh | EH9 1NJ |
Episkopi e-LC | Episkopi LC | Episkopi/Cyprus | BFPO 58 |
We Can Train Pitman | Exam rooms Park Five Business Centre, Harrier Way, Sowton Industrial Estate | Exeter | EX2 7HU |
PSI Glasgow | Adelphi Centre, 12 Commercial Road | Glasgow | G5 0PQ |
Iranian Association | 222 King Street, Hammersmith | Hammersmith | W6 0RA |
Computer Learning Centre Hounslow | 65 Kingsley Road | Hounslow | TW3 1QB |
PSI Nairn Inverness | Nairn Community & Arts Centre | Inverness | IV12 4BQ |
PSI at The Hub Business Centre Ipswich | 2nd floor, Room 16a , 2 Civic Drive | Ipswich | IP1 2QA |
PSI Leeds | Part 4th Floor, Oxford House, Oxford Row | Leeds | LS1 3BE |
PSI Leicester | 5th Floor, 60 Charles Street | Leicester | LE1 1FB |
PDA (Training) Ltd Lewisham | 107-109 Lewisham High Street | Lewisham | SE13 6AT |
PSI Liverpool | 1 Union Court, 4th Floor | Liverpool | L2 4SJ |
Community Training Portal Luton | 114-134 Midland Road,Luton, | Luton | LU2 OBL |
Synod Solutions @ Maidstone | 1st floor, 114 Kestrel House, Knight Rider Street, | Maidstone | ME15 6LU |
PSI Manchester | 6th Floor, Boulton House, 17-21 Chorlton Street | Manchester | M1 3HY |
MTS Milton Keynes | Gloucester House, MTS Ground Floor , 399 Silbury Boulevard | Milton Keynes | MK9 2AH |
PSI Newcastle | Arden House, 4th Floor, Regent Centre, Gosforth | Newcastle | NE3 3LU |
PSI Norwich | Room 23-24, Ground Floor, Sackville Place, 44-48 Magdalen Street | Norwich | NR3 1JU |
Community Training Portal Nottingham | 2 Pelham Court, Pelham Road, CTP Ground Floor (Palmer House) | Nottingham | NG5 1AP |
PSI Oxford | Unit 1 (first entrance at the rear of the building), Watlington House, Watlington Road | Oxford | OX4 6NF |
PSI Penrith | Ground floor,Eden Rural Foyer,Old London Rd | Penrith | CA11 8ET |
PSI at Online Exams Peterborough | Sefton House, Adam Court, Newark Road | Peterborough | PE1 5PP |
PSI eAssessment Plymouth | Cobourg House, 3rd Floor, 32, Mayflower Street | Plymouth | PL1 1QX |
Pitman/We can train Portsmouth | Portsmouth Technopole, Kingston Crescent | Portsmouth | P02 8FA |
Preston Academy of English | 38 Ormskirk Road | Preston | PR1 2QP |
PSI Reading | Highline, 6th Floor, 30 Greyfriars Road | Reading | RG1 1PE |
PSI Sheffield | The Synergy Building, Bank Street Entrance, Bank Street, Hartshead | Sheffield | S1 2EL |
PSI Stratford | 2nd Floor, Boardman House, 64 Broadway, Stratford, London | Stratford | E15 1NT |
Computeraid | 4th Floor, 11 Wind Street | Swansea | SA1 1DP |
Community Training Portal Watford | Suite W2 & W3 Victoria House, 45-47 Vicarage Road | Watford | WD18 0DE |
Asked by: Nick Timothy (Conservative - West Suffolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees of (a) Immigration Enforcement, (b) UK Visas and Immigration, (c) Border Force and (d) HM Passport Office have been found guilty of (i) corruption and (ii) immigration offences in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Note that we do not distinguish between immigration, crime and corruption stated in the request. We categorise all immigration crime as corruption and therefore provided a total figure.
A breakdown for each year is provided below:
Year | Number of convictions |
|
2014 | 1 | UKVI - 1 |
2015 | 6 | IE – 3 UKVI – 1 BF - 2 |
2016 | 2 | UKVI - 1 HMPO - 1 |
2017 | 2 | IE – 1 BF - 1 |
2018 | 1 | UKVI - 1 |
2019 | 1 | IE- 1 |
2020 | 0 |
|
2021 | 0 |
|
2022 | 1 | UKVI - 1 |
2023 | 4 | UKVI – 4 |
2024 | 1 | UKVI - 1 |
Asked by: Tom Hayes (Labour - Bournemouth East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to remove clauses 22-25 from the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Secretary set out the government’s position in respect of the Illegal Migration Act in her statement to the house on 22nd July 2024. Any legislative plans from the statement will be set out in the normal way in due course.
Asked by: Jo White (Labour - Bassetlaw)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals who receive a custodial prison sentence are deported on completion of their sentence.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The published statistics refer to enforced returns which include deportations, as well as cases where a person has breached UK immigration laws, and those removed under other administrative and illegal entry powers that have declined to leave voluntarily.
Figures on deportations, which are a subset of enforced returns, are not separately available.
We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation and they will be swiftly removed from the country.
In order to reduce the FNO prison population and support the MoJ in alleviating current prison capacity issues, we are focussing resources on those cases currently serving custodial sentences and maximising returns directly from prison.
Asked by: Baroness Eaton (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to consult local authorities before Government contractors decide to use hotels in those respective areas for the purpose of housing asylum seekers.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
In ensuring that views of key external stakeholders are sought and partners engaged with, the Home Office has dedicated Regional Engagement Leads who liaise directly with local authorities or via Regional Strategic Migration Partnerships (SMP). SMPs are Local Government led partnerships funded by, but independent of, the Home Office, whose role is to coordinate and support delivery of national programmes in asylum and refugee schemes as well as agreed regional and devolved migration priorities.
Asked by: Baroness Eaton (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to allowing local authorities to veto the use of hotels for the purpose of housing asylum seekers in their respective areas.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
In ensuring that views of key external stakeholders are sought and partners engaged with, the Home Office has dedicated Regional Engagement Leads who liaise directly with local authorities or via Regional Strategic Migration Partnerships (SMP). SMPs are Local Government led partnerships funded by, but independent of, the Home Office, whose role is to coordinate and support delivery of national programmes in asylum and refugee schemes as well as agreed regional and devolved migration priorities.
Asked by: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage and support local authorities to ensure that children in their care with rights to British citizenship have their citizenship rights confirmed or registered, including where necessary by confirming relevant information from records held by the Home Office.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office regularly engages with local authorities to support them in ensuring that children in local authority care, who are not already British citizens, can make an appropriate application for registration for citizenship. Children in local authority care are not required to pay an application fee when applying for registration as a British citizen.
In most cases, local authorities have access to the information needed to establish the citizenship rights and apply for registration for children in their care. Where there are evidence gaps, the Home Office will assist any applicant by checking information held in its records to confirm a claim.
Following the implementation of the British Nationality Act 1981, a range of explanatory material was prepared to support those affected by changes made by the Act. This material has been maintained and now forms part of the content of the relevant GOV.UK pages. The Home Office maintains published customer guidance for every British citizenship and nationality route, and also provides a British nationality status confirmation service.