Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will open an independent public enquiry into the conduct of the police at Orgreave coking works during the 1984-85 miners' strike.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
There are no plans to establish a public inquiry into the policing of the events at the Orgreave coking plant on 18 June 1984.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Durham County Council on the proposed changes to Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to convert Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre into a facility for men only.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of gender-based pay inequality among firefighters in England.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold this information centrally. The Equality Act 2010 gives women and men a right to equal pay for equal work.
Setting firefighter pay is the responsibility of employers, working through the National Joint Council. The Home Office plays no role in the negotiation or funding of firefighter pay.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the provision of concessionary passports people aged over of 80.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Concessionary passports are issued free of charge to British national customers born on or before 2 September 1929. The concession was introduced in 2004 as part of a series of measures to recognise the contribution of British nationals to the war effort, rather than being an age-related concession.
There are no current plans to review it at this stage.
HM Passport Office guidance on concessionary passports is published online: Concessionary passports (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of spousal visa applicants who paid for a priority service received a decision within the priority timescale in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The transparency data includes a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help tackle the backlog of spousal visa applications.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As such earlier this year the service standard for family entry clearance applications was changed from 60-days to 120-days as a direct result.
The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with a recent additional investment of new staff.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to assist Ukrainian refugees without an international passport who wish to return to Ukraine.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Under the Ukraine schemes, Ukrainians can travel outside of the UK and return provided they have received a Biometric Residence Permit. UKVI cannot comment on entry requirements to other countries.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any women detained in Derwentside immigration removal centre have been given a notice of intent for planned removal to Rwanda.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of notices of intent issued and can be found online at:
A breakdown of these figures into gender is not currently available however we are working to bring inadmissibility and nationality data in line with current reporting and hope to publish that information in the near future.
Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and the availability of data. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar(opens in a new tab)’.