Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were fined for not wearing seatbelts in the last 12 months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices and other outcomes resulting from motoring offences, including seatbelt offences. The latest data cover the calendar year ending 31 December 2021, and are available here: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Data on fixed penalty notices issued for seat belt offences by year are published in table FPN_03 of the accompanying data tables.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of passenger vehicles that do not comply with legal specifications for tinted windows.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 governs the amount of light that must pass through the windows of a vehicle and therefore how clearly the windows can be seen through.
It is for the police to take enforcement action as they consider appropriate against those in breach of the Regulations.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vehicles were stopped by police on suspicion of being in breach of rules on tinted windows in England in the last 12 months.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold this information centrally.
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 governs the amount of light that must pass through the windows of a vehicle and therefore how clearly the windows can be seen through.
It is for the police to take enforcement action as they consider appropriate against those in breach of the Regulations.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2022 to Question 90860 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department holds data it will not publish on the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by five or six dependents for the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
As part of the visa application process the Home Office records the details of the sponsored migrant a dependant is travelling with or joining.
The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of recipients of international student visas who are accompanied by dependants.
Information on our immigration routes is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2022 to Question 79326 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department holds any data on the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by five or six dependents.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of recipients of international student visas who are accompanied by dependants.
Information on our immigration routes is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2022 to Question 73114 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department records the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by five and six dependents.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of recipients of international student visas who are accompanied by dependants.
Information on our immigration routes is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2022 to Question 64270 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department holds data on the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by (a) five and (b) six dependents; what steps her Department is taking to monitor this information; and what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's monitoring processes of this information.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office regularly reviews available data to inform operational processes and policies.
Information on our immigration routes, including overall volumes of dependants for each route is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recipients of international student visas are accompanied by (a) five and (b) six dependents.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of recipients of international student visas who are accompanied by dependants.
Information on our immigration routes is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the immigration surcharge on (a) recruiting and (b) retaining researchers in the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Attracting international research talent is a key component of our global points-based immigration system. We have a very generous immigration offer, which enables talented researchers to come to the UK through several different routes, including Global Talent, Skilled Worker, and Authorised Exchange (GAE) routes.
Visa fees are set taking account of the charging powers provided by Section 68(9) of the Immigration Act 2014, which include the ability to set fees based on: the cost of processing the application, the benefits provided by a successful application and the wider cost of the Migration and Borders system. Full details are available via the following link - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/22/section/68.
Turning to the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS), this is payable by individuals coming to the UK to work, study or join family for a period exceeding six-month in length. An impact assessment was published alongside the Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2020 on 16 July 2020 which included assessments of the impact of the IHS on work routes, of which researchers would be in scope. The impact assessment can be viewed through this link https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1086/impacts.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the cost of visa applications on (a) recruiting and (b) retaining researchers in the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Attracting international research talent is a key component of our global points-based immigration system. We have a very generous immigration offer, which enables talented researchers to come to the UK through several different routes, including Global Talent, Skilled Worker, and Authorised Exchange (GAE) routes.
Visa fees are set taking account of the charging powers provided by Section 68(9) of the Immigration Act 2014, which include the ability to set fees based on: the cost of processing the application, the benefits provided by a successful application and the wider cost of the Migration and Borders system. Full details are available via the following link - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/22/section/68.
Turning to the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS), this is payable by individuals coming to the UK to work, study or join family for a period exceeding six-month in length. An impact assessment was published alongside the Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2020 on 16 July 2020 which included assessments of the impact of the IHS on work routes, of which researchers would be in scope. The impact assessment can be viewed through this link https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1086/impacts.