Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish further information on the potential further extension of visas for people unable to leave the UK to travel home after 31 July 2020.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The latest information in respect of advice for visa holders can be found on GOV.UK at: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents. This is kept under review.
The Home Office has put in place a range of measures to support those affected by the covid-19 outbreak. We recognise further adjustments are likely to be required to cater for all scenarios, and we are working through these, to ensure people are not unduly affected by circumstances beyond their control.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa requirements will apply after the transition period for individuals from other European countries wishing to volunteer for a period of one to two years in the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Under the current Immigration Rules, there are a range of routes for specialist activities, including temporary charity workers.
There are no current plans to change these routes, though from January 2021, these routes will be opened to EEA and Swiss citizens.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2015 to Question 225163, on asylum, how many further submissions were made in (a) East Midlands, (b) London, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) North East England, (e) North West England, (f) Scotland, (g) Wales, (h) West Midlands and (i) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year from 2008 to 2014.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Regional data is not captured at the point of application.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2015 to Question 225191, on asylum, how many grants on (a) protection and (b) non-protection grounds her Department made in (i) England, (ii) Northern Ireland, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Wales in each year from 2008 to 2014.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Regional data is not captured at the point of application.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) financial and (b) equality impact assessment has been undertaken of the forthcoming changes to the Immigration Rules announced on 13 January 2015 that will require further submissions by post-2007 refused asylum applicants to be made in person at her Department's office in Liverpool.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The further submissions process applies only to failed asylum seekers whose claims have already been carefully considered by UK Visas and Immigration, and their cases examined and found by the independent courts not to need protection or have any other
basis to stay in the UK. Those who choose to make further submissions have usually been in the UK for at least six months and will have had access to free legal advice throughout the asylum process.
The changes we are making will bring post-2007 further submissions cases in line with pre-2007 cases by requiring all applications to be lodged in person, in Liverpool, unless there are exceptional circumstances. This will improve customer service and enable decisions on further submissions to be taken within five working days in most cases. Those who are recognised as refugees or found to be otherwise eligible for leave to remain in the UK will therefore be granted leave more quickly under the new arrangements.
Those whose applications are rejected will be expected to leave the UK and in most cases will not be eligible for asylum support. Tax payers should not be expected to support migrants who have failed to establish a right to remain in the UK and the changes we are making will result in substantial financial savings to asylum support costs.
A full equality impact assessment was undertaken in advance of the changes. Extension of the existing process to more recent cases has been deferred for a short period to allow for discussion of concerns raised by Liverpool City Council but when we implement we expect to publish the Policy Equality Statement along with the revised policy.
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which Home Office Reporting Centre further submissions under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were initially made in each of the last seven years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office has used Reporting Centres for further submission at Eaton/
Becket House (London), Electric/ Lunar House (Croydon), Frontier House
(Folkestone), General Building (Cardiff) , Heol Pentrefelin (Swansea), Sanford
House (Solihull), Loughborough Reporting Centre (Loughborough), Dallas Court
(Manchester), Reliance House/ The Capital (Liverpool), Waterside Court (Leeds),
Vulcan House (Sheffield), Northumbria House (Tyneside), Festival Court
(Glasgow) and Drumkeen House (Belfast).
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of further submissions made under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were (a) accepted as fresh claims and (b) rejected with no right of appeal in each year for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is as follows:
a)
Year | Fresh Claims | Proportion |
2001 | 13 | 16% |
2002 | 4 | 3% |
2003 | 11 | 3% |
2004 | 22 | 4% |
2005 | 38 | 3% |
2006 | 68 | 4% |
2007 | 115 | 4% |
2008 | 307 | 5% |
2009 | 1,066 | 8% |
2010 | 1,254 | 4% |
2011 | 1,100 | 8% |
2012 | 798 | 7% |
2013 | 558 | 6% |
2014 | 413 | 4% |
Total 5,767
|
b)
Year | Rejected no ROA | Proportion | |
2001 | 13 | 16% | |
2002 | 31 | 22% | |
2003 | 80 | 25% | |
2004 | 149 | 28% | |
2005 | 240 | 20% | |
2006 | 447 | 26% | |
2007 | 922 | 33% | |
2008 | 2,316 | 37% | |
2009 | 4,621 | 33% | |
2010 | 9,534 | 33% | |
2011 | 7,457 | 51% | |
2012 | 5,546 | 50% | |
2013 | 4,474 | 45% | |
2014 | 4,026 | 42% | |
Total 39,856
|
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) grants and (b) refusals of international protection her Department made in cases where further submissions under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were accepted as fresh claims for each of the last seven years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is as follows:
a)
Grants on protection grounds | |
2008 | 161 |
2009 | 441 |
2010 | 361 |
2011 | 684 |
2012 | 759 |
2013 | 401 |
2014 | 119 |
Total | 2,926 |
Grants non protection grounds | |
2008 | 786 |
2009 | 1,357 |
2010 | 2,719 |
2011 | 2,391 |
2012 | 1,719 |
2013 | 1,165 |
2014 | 562 |
Total | 10,699 |
Grand Total 13,625
b)
Refusals as fresh claims | |
2008 | 307 |
2009 | 1,064 |
2010 | 1,252 |
2011 | 1,100 |
2012 | 798 |
2013 | 558 |
2014 | 413 |
Total | 5,492 |
Refusals as further submissions | |
2008 | 2,316 |
2009 | 4,621 |
2010 | 9,534 |
2011 | 7,457 |
2012 | 5,546 |
2013 | 4,474 |
2014 | 4,026 |
Total | 37,974 |
Grand Total 43,466
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many further submissions under rule 353 of the Immigration Rules were made in each of the last seven years.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is as follows:
| Year | Further Submissions |
| 2008 | 6,266 |
| 2009 | 14,107 |
| 2010 | 28,971 |
| 2011 | 14,657 |
| 2012 | 11,164 |
| 2013 | 9,873 |
| 2014 | 9,598 |
| Grand Total | 94,636 |
Asked by: Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party - Perth and North Perthshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) requests, (b) arrests and (c) surrenders have been made relating to people wanted from the UK or wanted by the UK for human trafficking offences through the European Arrest Warrant since that mechanism was introduced.
Answered by Karen Bradley
For the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14, the following table sets out the numbers of a) requests, b) arrests and c) surrenders relating to people in England , Wales and Northern Ireland wanted by other EU Member States for human
trafficking and immigration and human trafficking offences, under a European Arrest Warrant.
Requests to England, Wales and Northern Ireland | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Total |
Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 117 | 196 | 414 | 344 | 144 | 1,215 |
Arrests in England, Wales and Northern Ireland | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Total |
Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 28 | 23 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 143 |
Surrenders from England, Wales and Northern Ireland | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Total |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 21 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 28 | 115 |
Since 2012, in addition to the figures above, ten requests were made to Scotland, three people were arrested and three people were surrendered from Scotland to other EU Member States for human trafficking offences under a
European Arrest Warrant.
For the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14, the following table sets out the numbers of a) requests, b) arrests and c) surrenders relating to people who are wanted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from other EU Member States for
human trafficking and immigration and human trafficking offences, under a European Arrest Warrant.
Requests to other EU Member States | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Grand Total |
Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 1 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 34 |
Arrests in other EU Member States | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Grand Total |
Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 22 |
Surrenders to England Wales and Northern Ireland | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | Grand Total |
Human Trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Immigration & Human Trafficking | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
Since 2012, in addition to the figures above, no people were arrested or surrendered to Scotland from other EU Member States for human trafficking offences under a European Arrest Warrant.
Prior to the financial year 2013-14, figures for human trafficking offences were not collected separately from immigration offences for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.