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Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Tuesday 14th January 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, 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.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Tuesday 14th January 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, 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.


Written Question
Asylum: Housing
Monday 30th December 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, 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


Written Question
Visas
Wednesday 18th December 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, 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.


Written Question
Asylum: LGBT+ People
Wednesday 18th December 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.


Written Question
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
Monday 16th December 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, 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


Written Question
Non-crime Hate Incidents
Friday 29th November 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, 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.


Written Question
Deportation
Tuesday 26th November 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, 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.


Written Question
Visas: Married People
Monday 25th November 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, 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.


Written Question
Migrant Workers: Social Services
Monday 18th November 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, 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.