Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what difference each of the Contract Change Notices made to the contract.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost was of each of the Contract Change Notices.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what occasions a Contract Change Note has been issued for contracts for asylum accommodation and support services since 2021.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Since 2021, Contract Change Notices have been issued for the Asylum Accommodation and Support contracts on the following occasions:
Serco MEE
CCN Number | Date Effective |
006.02 | 01/03/2021 |
006.04 | 12/11/2021 |
006.07 | 06/01/2022 |
006.08 | 01/04/2022 |
006.10 | 24/05/2022 |
006.12 | 24/08/2022 |
006.14 | 31/10/2022 |
006.16 | 12/01/2023 |
006.18 | 12/01/2023 |
006.20 | 07/03/2023 |
006.22 | 27/03/2023 |
006.24 | 06/04/2023 |
006.26 | 24/05/2023 |
006.28 | 27/06/2023 |
006.30 | 20/07/2023 |
006.32 | 03/08/2023 |
006.34 | 20/10/2023 |
006.36 | 20/10/2023 |
008.00 | 14/12/2021 |
008.01 | 01/04/2022 |
008.02 | 16/11/2022 |
008.03 | 27/11/2022 |
009.00 | 01/01/2021 |
011.00 | 01/05/2022 |
012.00 | 24/05/2022 |
014.00 | 14/02/2022 |
015.00 | 01/09/2022 |
017.00 | 10/01/2023 |
018.00 | 01/01/2022 |
019.00 | 01/01/2023 |
019.10 | 11/08/2023 |
020.00 | 11/08/2023 |
022.00 | 03/08/2023 |
022.10 | 06/11/2023 |
022.20 | 05/01/2024 |
022.30 | 05/03/2024 |
022.40 | 05/06/2024 |
022.50 | 05/08/2024 |
023.00 | 04/07/2023 |
023a | 08/09/2023 |
023b | 18/09/2023 |
023c | 18/09/2023 |
024.00 | 07/08/2023 |
024.10 | 07/08/2023 |
025.00 | 06/10/2023 |
026.00 | 08/12/2023 |
027.00 | 01/10/2024 |
Serco NW
CCN Number | Date Effective |
005 | 23/11/2021 |
006.01 | 28/01/2021 |
006.03 | 13/07/2021 |
006.05 | 12/11/2021 |
006.06 | 06/01/2022 |
006.09 | 01/04/2022 |
006.11 | 24/05/2022 |
006.13 | 24/08/2022 |
006.14 | 31/10/2022 |
006.15 | 31/10/2022 |
006.17 | 12/01/2023 |
006.19 | 12/01/2023 |
006.21 | 07/03/2023 |
006.23 | 27/03/2023 |
006.25 | 06/04/2023 |
006.27 | 24/05/2023 |
006.29 | 27/06/2023 |
006.31 | 20/07/2023 |
006.33 | 03/08/2023 |
006.35 | 20/10/2023 |
006.37 | 20/10/2023 |
009 | 06/01/2022 |
011 | 01/05/2022 |
012 | 24/05/2022 |
013 | 11/05/2022 |
013.1 | 24/06/2022 |
014 | 11/02/2022 |
017 | 10/01/2023 |
018 | 01/01/2022 |
019 | 01/01/2023 |
019.01 | 01/04/2024 |
020 | 11/08/2023 |
025 | 06/10/2023 |
026 | 18/12/2023 |
027 | 01/10/2024 |
Mears NEYH
CCN Number | Date Effective |
013 | 23/02/2021 |
014 | 01/03/2021 |
015 | 21/05/2021 |
016 | 06/09/2022 |
019 | 25/02/2022 |
022 | 06/04/2022 |
023 | 04/11/2022 |
024 | 01/01/2023 |
025 | 27/02/2023 |
026 | 11/07/2023 |
027 | 30/08/2023 |
028 | 17/11/2023 |
029 | 14/09/2023 |
030 | 05/01/2023 |
030A | 20/02/2024 |
031 | 08/12/2023 |
033 | 08/01/2024 |
034 | 01/01/2024 |
035 | 01/02/2024 |
036 | 08/03/2024 |
037 | 15/03/2024 |
038 | 29/06/2024 |
039 | 24/07/2024 |
040 | 31/08/2024 |
041 | 29/09/2024 |
042 | 01/11/2024 |
043 | 17/11/2024 |
044 | 01/10/2024 |
048 | 01/12/2024 |
049 | 13/12/2024 |
Mears NI
CCN Number | Date Effective |
009 | 17/01/2022 |
012 | 17/01/2022 |
013 | 04/04/2022 |
016 | 23/08/2023 |
019 | 09/02/2024 |
020 | 01/02/2024 |
021 | 01/10/2024 |
022 | 13/12/2024 |
Mears Scotland
CCN Number | Date Effective |
010 | 15/01/2021 |
011 | 23/02/2021 |
012 | 01/03/2021 |
013 | 15/01/2021 |
014 | 25/02/2022 |
015 | 04/04/2022 |
016 | 15/01/2021 |
017 | 15/01/2021 |
018 | 15/01/2023 |
019 | 15/01/2021 |
020 | 23/08/2023 |
020A | 23/08/2023 |
021 | 15/01/2021 |
022 | 01/02/2024 |
023 | 01/10/2024 |
024 | 18/11/2024 |
025 | 18/11/2024 |
026 | 01/10/2024 |
027 | 13/12/2024 |
CRH South
CCN Number | Date Effective |
006e | 22/03/2022 |
006f | 25/10/2022 |
010 | 28/01/2021 |
011 | 31/03/2021 |
012 | 02/12/2021 |
013 | 11/02/2022 |
014 | 28/01/2022 |
015 | 01/04/2022 |
016 | 03/11/2022 |
016a | 10/11/2022 |
016b | 11/12/2022 |
016c | 12/03/2023 |
016d | 12/06/2023 |
016e | 12/09/2023 |
016f | 12/12/2023 |
017 | 22/11/2022 |
018 | 01/10/2021 |
019 | 01/01/2023 |
020 | 25/04/2023 |
021 | 11/06/2023 |
022 | 06/06/2023 |
023 | 26/07/2023 |
024 | 27/11/2023 |
025 | 13/11/2023 |
026 | 29/11/2023 |
028 | 23/07/2024 |
CRH Wales
CCN Number | Date Effective |
010 | 28/01/2021 |
012 | 02/12/2021 |
013 | 11/02/2022 |
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were granted to (a) people and (b) family dependents in each quarter since January 2021.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas granted, by quarter, visa route and applicant type, are published in table Vis_D02 of Entry clearance detailed dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate up to the end of September 2024.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to update the LGB asylum data tables, last updated on 25 August 2022.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum claims relating to sexual orientation are published in the ‘Asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation tables’. The latest data on claims and initial decisions relates to 2023 and was updated as part of the year ending June 2024 release in August 2024. The next planned update is in August 2025.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list (a) all the contracts for asylum accommodation and support services the Department has agreed since 2017 and (b) the (i) value of, (ii) regions covered by and (iii) period covered by each contract.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Asylum Accommodation and Support Services agreements and the details sought have been published on Contracts Finder and can be found at:
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract MEE - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NEYH - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Wales - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract South - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Wales - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NW - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract Scotland - Contracts Finder
AASC - Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract NI - Contracts Finder
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents were recorded by each police force in each year since 2014.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not currently centrally collate information on the number of non-crime hate incidents recorded by individual police forces.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were served with a notice of liability to remove in each year since 2004.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not routinely report on numbers of individuals served with notices of liability to removal, and that information could only be obtained for the purposes of this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of partner visas were granted where the applicant used cash savings to count towards the minimum income threshold in each year since 2012.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Home Office publishes data on Partner entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. However, this information is not broken down by the means by which the Minimum Income Requirement is met.
Data on visas issued are published in Table Vis_D02 in the detailed entry clearance visa dataset. The Partner visa subgroup is included in the 'Family' visa type, which covers visas where an individual is applying for a visa on the basis of their relationship to a person settled in the UK or a British citizen.
Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of each workbook. The latest data relates to 2024 Q2.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to review the treatment of migrant workers in the care sector.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Government is deeply concerned by reports of unethical practices relating to international recruits within the adult social care sector. UK Visas and Immigration continue to investigate and take action, alongside partners, where evidence of abuse is found, engaging with the Gangmasters Labour Abuse Authority and other relevant agencies to hold employers to account and working with Department for Health and Social Care to support impacted workers.