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Lords Chamber
Family Reunion Visas: Gaza - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) At present, there are no plans to create a new immigration route for those affected by the security situation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) My Lords, under the Ukrainian scheme, about 174,000 people came to the UK, and there were extensive categories - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Is the Minister aware that the immigration tribunal judges found the Home Office’s decision on this to - Speech Link
4: Lord Morgan (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, is not the policy of issuing visas being used deliberately to cut back the number of immigrants - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This country is actually very generous: between 2015 and 2023, some 53,574 family reunion visas were - Speech Link

Select Committee
Extracellular, Colorifix, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: Engineering biology
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Science and Technology Committee (Lords)

Found: Extracellular, Colorifix, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Oral Evidence

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Home Office

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Home Office procurement card spend over £500: 2024
Document: (webpage)

Found: Home Office UKVIP - Visas Immigration & Passports 12/01/2024 DATA ROOM SUPPLIES 6-UKVIP - Visas Immigration

Deposited Papers

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.
Document: 180._Ukraine_V5.0.pdf (PDF)

Found: of digital immigration status (an eVisa).

Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Family visas have not made up more than 10% of total entry visas for over a decade. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) and the immigration health surcharge. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We would like to see devolution in the short term, and full control over the immigration system in the - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We will keep that position under review, as we do with the entirety of our immigration system and the - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) thresholds for partner and spousal visas. - Speech Link

Select Committee
OSCE Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Simon Fraser University, Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA), and Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)

Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: OSCE Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Simon Fraser University

Deposited Papers

Apr. 22 2024

Source Page: The six-monthly report on Hong Kong: 1 July to 31 December 2023. 37p.
Document: Six-Monthly_Report_on_Hong_Kong_July_to_December_2023.pdf (PDF)

Found: In Novemb er, the Home Office published the latest UK B ritish National (Overseas ) (BN(O)) immigration

Deposited Papers

Apr. 22 2024

Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: APRIL_2024_List_of_Ministerial_Responsibilities.pdf (PDF)

Found: List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III.

Written Question
Visas: British National (Overseas)
Monday 22nd April 2024

Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Hong Kong residents born before 1997 have been granted British National (Overseas) visas under exceptional circumstances.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

All applications are determined on a case-by-case basis depending on their individual circumstances.

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of applications that have been granted a British National (Overseas) visa specifically under exceptional circumstances.

The Home Office releases data on the BN(O) route as part of the quarterly migration statistics which can be found at the following link: Safe and legal (humanitarian) routes to the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Carter of Coles (Lab - Life peer) It is, I think, the leading supplier of tomatoes to the UK and is world-class and competitive. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The only published full review of the scheme is of the 2019 pilot, which involved 2,500 visas. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I should say, not immigration. - Speech Link