Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 235392, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless foreign nationals detained by Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office does not hold the information requested in a reportable format. The data that is recorded on the housing conditions of migrants is largely volunteered by the migrants themselves, may not be reliable in all cases and does not allow for informed estimates of the numbers who are homeless. An attempt at an estimate requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless foreign nationals detained by Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams in each of the previous years for which figures are available.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office does not hold the information requested in a reportable format. As such the information requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out the technology used for the EU Settled Status Scheme to other Home Office applications.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The UK’s future skills-based immigration system will make use of the latest digital technology to improve customer experience, increase security and detect abuse. Nearly all applications for individuals seeking to visit, work or study in the UK are now made online. However, under the future system we want to simplify the process further so that all users understand what they need to do and what they are entitled to do.
We will continue to explore other new technologies to improve application processes, including, for example the ID verification app developed for the EU Settlement Scheme, and we will learn lessons from its use in the EU Settlement Scheme and consider whether it might be appropriate for use in the future system.