Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)Found: For the United States health authorities in Afghanistan and Iraq it was 3:1 and 5:1.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Supporting citizens arriving from Afghanistan Contents Introduction Afghan Relocation Assistance
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Reclaims V11.0 139 Recoverable Hardship Payments V10.0 140 Redundancy prior to a claim V4.0 141 Refugees
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Reclaims V11.0 139 Recoverable Hardship Payments V10.0 140 Redundancy prior to a claim V4.0 141 Refugees
Asked by: Stephen Kinnock (Labour - Aberavon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of Afghan nationals who are family members of individuals resettled to the UK under pathway 1 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme who have (a) applied for and (b) been granted (i) entry clearance under refugee family reunion rules, (ii) leave outside those rules and (iii) leave to enter or remain in the UK under other immigration routes.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Government continues to work with partners in the region to evacuate eligible people and are committed to bringing more Afghans to the UK in the long term. This includes eligible immediate family members of those being resettled under both the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).
Public data giving the requested breakdown of family members is not available; however, the latest published statistics, summarised at Afghan Resettlement Programme: operational data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), show that, at the end of December 2023, 10,520 have been relocated under ACRS, with 9,706 individuals resettled under Pathway 1 of this scheme so far.
For those evacuated from Afghanistan under ACRS Pathway 1 without their immediate family members, the Home Secretary has committed to establishing a route for separated families to be reunited in the first half of this year. Further details will be provided in due course.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral statement by the Minister for Veteran's Affairs on Resettlement of Afghans of 19 September 2023, Official Report, column 1253, how many and what proportion of the Afghans that were housed in temporary accommodation under the local authority homelessness provision on 19 September 2023 have since been moved into permanent accommodation.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The department continues to monitor homelessness in these groups, and further data will be published on this in due course. This will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england.
We publish data on this subject on an ad hoc basis that is voluntarily provided by local authorities. The last time information was published was in September 2023 and related to 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023. This data was published to monitor the success of the move of Afghans out of hotels into settled accommodation.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Afghans under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme are in temporary accommodation provided under local authority homelessness provision.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The department continues to monitor homelessness in these groups, and further data will be published on this in due course. This will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england.
We publish data on this subject on an ad hoc basis that is voluntarily provided by local authorities. The last time information was published was in September 2023 and related to 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023. This data was published to monitor the success of the move of Afghans out of hotels into settled accommodation.
Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) I am sorry about that incident, but 30,000 refugees have been safely rehoused in Rwanda. - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) I listened carefully to the intervention that referred to 30,000 refugees in the past decade. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) My constituent Trevor Young worked for the British Army in Afghanistan, alongside his comrade and friend - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) He said this:“Let me say to anyone to whom we have made commitments and who is currently in Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) those heroes to whom we owe a debt of honour, still less are there safe routes for any other genuine refugees - Speech Link
3: None sitting and looking admiringly on some quite nice-looking houses which had been built in Rwanda for the refugees - Speech Link
4: None with and are there pilots who have declared that they are willing to fly the planes carrying those refugees - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There is a safe and legal route available to those in Afghanistan who have served and can prove their - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is to accept those who can demonstrate that they assisted the British forces in Afghanistan. - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Government have given undertakings, and we have heard further undertakings about the treatment of Afghan refugees - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The situation in Afghanistan in particular is deteriorating at the moment. - Speech Link