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 and what proportion of super priority visa applications were processed within five working days in 2022.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes migration transparency data on the gov.uk website. The latest published data was released on 24 November 2022 and the report covers the period up until end of September 2022.
Historically, we have included performance against customer service standards within the published data up until Quarter 3 of 2021, however due to a technical issue we have been unable to release the 2022 figures. It is our intention to reintroduce these figures as part of future migration transparency data releases now that the technical issue has been resolved.
We are unable to provide data on how much the Home Office has refunded to super priority visa applicants in 2022. The information is held over multiple computer systems and various immigration routes, which would require a manual trawl to obtain and collate into a report, thereby exceeding time/cost limits.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend eligibility of the Resettlement Scheme for vulnerable people in Afghanistan beyond the Pathway 3 criteria.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
There are no plans to expand the criteria under the existing pathways of the
the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS). Eligible people will be prioritised and referred for resettlement to the UK through one of three referral pathways, which is a fair and equitable way to identify those in need.
Under Pathway 3, in the first year, places will be offered to eligible at-risk British Council contractors, GardaWorld contractors, and Chevening alumni in Afghanistan or the region.
Beyond the first year of Pathway 3, we will continue to work with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk. Further detail will be set out in due course.
Definitions for these eligibility criteria can be found at: Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 3: eligibility for British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening Alumni - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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 - Shadow Home Secretary
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 - Shadow Home Secretary
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 - Shadow Home Secretary
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
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.