Asked by: Jake Richards (Labour - Rother Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted entry clearance to the UK under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme and (c) Afghanistan Response Route.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
From 2021 to the end of June 2025, there have been around 36,000 arrivals under the Afghan Resettlement Programme, of which 13,200 were through the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, 19,000 through Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy and 3,400 through the Afghanistan Response Route.
Asked by: Jake Richards (Labour - Rother Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Armed Forces Covenant Duty across her Departmental responsibilities.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office greatly values the contribution of all service personnel and remains committed to upholding its moral obligations under the Armed Forces Covenant.
The Department already embeds the principles of the Covenant, specifically within the provisions of the Appendix HM Armed Forces route which ensures that service personnel and their families are not disadvantaged in immigration matters due to their service.
Asked by: Jake Richards (Labour - Rother Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) claim asylum and (b) receive leave to remain based solely on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
The Hon Member may be interested to know that grants of leave under family and private life rules are an unpublished subset of ‘Other Grants’ which can be found on tab Asy_D02 of the quarterly Immigration System Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables.
Asked by: Jake Richards (Labour - Rother Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Immigration Skills Charge raised in (a) the last 12 months and (b) each of the last five years; and how the money raised has been spent so far.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office reports income for the Immigration Skills Charge on a financial year basis (April to March), in the Annual Reports and Accounts (ARA). Please refer to the links and references provided in the table below.
Year | Where to find | Link |
2019/20 | 2019/20 ARA, note 2.1, page 195 | Home Office annual report and accounts: 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
2020/21 | 2020/21 ARA, note 2.1, page 199 | HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk) |
2021/22 | 2021/22 ARA, note 2.1, page 216 | Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
2022/23 | 2022/23 ARA, note 2.1, page 292 | Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk) |
2023/24 | 2023/24 ARA, note 2.1, pages 298-299 (pages 302-303 on the pdf reader) | Home Office annual report and accounts: 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
Data for financial year 2024-25 will be published following the end of the financial year and once the accounts have been laid before Parliament.
The Home Office does not hold information on how the money raised has been spent so far as this income is not retained by the Home Office and is remitted to HM Treasury as Consolidated Fund Extra Receipts.