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Written Question
Immigration: Sudan
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Metropolitan Police: Misconduct
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
British Nationality: Assessments
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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


Written Question
Home Office: Staff
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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


Written Question
Illegal Migration Act 2023
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
Tuesday 17th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Asylum: Hotels
Monday 16th September 2024

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.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Monday 16th September 2024

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.


Written Question
British Nationality: Children in Care
Monday 16th September 2024

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.