Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of European Union identity cards seized by Border Force since 2010 were in the possession of people (a) under the age of 18 and (b) on organised visits from educational institutions.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Border Force does not hold this data in an easily accessible format.
For the financial year beginning from 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022, there were 1235 forged/counterfeit documents, and 153 imposters encountered at the UK Border.
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications to her Department in each customer group were processed within the time stipulated by the customer service standard since 1 January 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office has been prioritising visa applications in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine.
Information on how UKVI is performing against service standards can be found in the migration transparency data published on the GOV.UK webpage Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum applications received by her Department since 1 January 2022 have been classified as straightforward as defined in her Department's customer service standards.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Since October 2018 we have not classified asylum applications in this way.
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve the time taken to process passport applications for (a) immigrants and (b) refugees not related to schemes for Ukrainian refugees.
Answered by Kevin Foster
British passports are issued to British nationals only.
Should any person become a British citizen through naturalisation or registration, they should apply for a British passport in the usual way. All applicants in the UK using the standard service are currently advised to allow up to ten weeks to get their passport.
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve the time taken to process passport applications for (a) immigrants, and (b) refugees not related to schemes for Ukrainian refugees.
Answered by Kevin Foster
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of Ukrainian refugees residing in the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office now routinely publishes data on Ukrainians arriving in the United Kingdom under our two new schemes.
Between 11 and 18 April, the number of those arriving under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme more than doubled from 3,200 to 6,600.
15,000 more Ukranians have arrived under the Family Scheme; meaning that as of 18 April, 21,600 visa holders had arrived in the UK.
We continue to work at pace to ensure more people can arrive more quickly.