Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department intends to reply to correspondence of 10 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA71953.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 65741 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65742 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0441402/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 19 October 2022.
PQ 65743 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65744 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0297450/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 May 2022 at an MP Engagement event.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department intends to reply to the correspondence of 26 September 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA71312.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 65741 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65742 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0441402/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 19 October 2022.
PQ 65743 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65744 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0297450/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 May 2022 at an MP Engagement event.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department intends to reply to correspondence of 22 September 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA71274.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 65741 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65742 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0441402/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 19 October 2022.
PQ 65743 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 65744 – MPAM reference – MPAM/0297450/22 – The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 17 May 2022 at an MP Engagement event.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of 15 September 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA70529.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 64076 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 64077 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0414558/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
PQ 64078 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0434622/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will reply to correspondence of 16 August 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA69438.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 64076 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 64077 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0414558/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
PQ 64078 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0434622/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of 18 August 2022 from the hon. Member for Walthamstow, case reference ZA70406.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
I apologise for the delay.
PQ 64076 – The Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management (MPAM) team and Direct Communications Unit (DCU) have no trace of this enquiry.
PQ 64077 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0414558/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
PQ 64078 – MPAM reference: MPAM/0434622/22 – The Home Office responded on 18 October 2022.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's decision to extend the standard processing times for family visas to 24 weeks, what consultation her Department undertook prior to making that decision; and what assessment her Department has made of the impact of that decision on people awaiting visa decisions, particularly in respect of their right to family life.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The 24-week service standard is based on expected processing times due to the increased number of outstanding family visa applications. This increase was due to the prioritisation of Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Staff from other government departments, including DWP and HMRC, have been surged into the department to help with Ukraine work and enable normal visa routes to return to normal service levels in due course. Applicants were informed of the change to a 24-week service standard on 11 May 2022 and the department is currently operating within this.
The Department is aware of potential impacts of applicants awaiting visa decisions. Requests to expedite spousal visa applications where there are compelling or compassionate circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis and take a range of factors into consideration.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2022 to Question 18899 on Sexual Harassment: Public Places, whether she plans to publish the consultation on public sexual harassment ahead of the summer recess.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
I confirm that we plan to publish the consultation on public sexual harassment before the summer recess.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timescale is for publishing an updated code of practice for the treatment of juvenile covert human intelligence sources; and what stakeholders her Department has engaged with on the content of that update.
Answered by Stephen McPartland
The Government currently plans to publish the revised Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Code of Practice in the autumn of this year. The CHIS Code provides comprehensive guidance to public authorities on their powers and duties in respect of CHIS, including children who are authorised as CHIS.
As part of the consultation process, Home Office officials engaged with a wide number of stakeholders, including children’s charities, the Children’s Commissioner for England and Wales (and devolved equivalents), as well as users of the Code.
In addition, on 13 December 2021, the Home Office launched a public consultation for a period of 8 weeks to seek views on the changes to the revised CHIS Code. The Home Office received a number of responses to the consultation and officials have been carefully considering all of these responses before finalising the changes to the Code.
Asked by: Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op) - Walthamstow)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Protocol on the Law Commission, for what reason she has not published a response to the Law Commission report entitled Hate crime laws: Final report, HC 942, within six months of its publication.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
We are grateful to the Law Commission for its detailed report.
The Government is carefully considering its recommendations and a full Government response to the Law Commission report will be published shortly.