Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 30-day entry visas have been granted by nationality of applicant in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Quarterly data on the number of visas issued by category and nationality is published online at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2016/list-of-tables#visas
Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 30-day entry visas were issued by her Department where the applicant did not travel to the UK within that 30-day time period.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
I am sorry but the information you have requested is not included in statistics published by the Home Office.
Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service were not resolved within 60 days in (a) the UK, (b) Manchester and (c) Manchester Withington constituency in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Sarah Newton
In the last 12 months (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016), the proportion of disclosure applications which took longer than 60 days was as follows: (a) the UK - 5.4%, (b) Manchester - 3.9%, (c) Manchester Withington - 2.8%. The Disclosure and Barring Service is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The average time taken in days to process disclosures checks in the last three years is as follows:
Time Period | Average waiting time - United Kingdom | Average waiting time - Manchester Withington |
Oct-13 to Sep-14 | 13.4 | 12.0 |
Oct-14 to Sep-15 | 14.4 | 12.1 |
Oct-15 to Sep-16 | 15.5 | 12.6 |
The average processing time for applications to the DBS for each police force area in England from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016 is set out in the table below. This shows the average number of days each application took from the point at which the application form was received to the date the certificate was issued, broken down by the applicant’s geographical police force area. This information reflects all applications sent to the DBS, of which a proportion are sent to police forces for consideration for disclosure.
Police Force Area in which applicant lives | Average time taken in calendar days |
Metropolitan | 28.1 |
Cumbria | 11.5 |
Lancashire | 11.6 |
Merseyside | 12.1 |
Greater Manchester | 14.1 |
Cheshire | 11.1 |
Northumbria | 13.9 |
Durham | 11.9 |
North Yorkshire | 14.1 |
West Yorkshire | 12.7 |
South Yorkshire | 19.8 |
Humberside | 12.2 |
Cleveland | 13.5 |
West Midlands | 10.3 |
Staffordshire | 9.6 |
West Mercia | 11.9 |
Warwickshire | 9.4 |
Derbyshire | 14.1 |
Nottinghamshire | 11.7 |
Lincolnshire | 10.5 |
Leicestershire | 9.4 |
Northamptonshire | 17.9 |
Cambridgeshire | 10.1 |
Norfolk | 9.1 |
Suffolk | 9.9 |
Bedfordshire | 11.6 |
Hertfordshire | 14.8 |
Essex | 14.2 |
Thames Valley | 16.1 |
Hampshire | 14.2 |
Surrey | 14.1 |
Kent | 15.8 |
Sussex | 11.9 |
City of London | 11.9 |
Devon & Cornwall | 11.3 |
Avon And Somerset | 10.7 |
Gloucester | 10.7 |
Wiltshire | 10.2 |
Dorset | 26.8 |
For a breakdown of how long police forces take to process applications they receive; this information is regularly published on the DBS website and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-performance
Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time was for the completion of pre-employment checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service in each of the last three years in (a) the UK and (b) Manchester Withington constituency.
Answered by Sarah Newton
In the last 12 months (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016), the proportion of disclosure applications which took longer than 60 days was as follows: (a) the UK - 5.4%, (b) Manchester - 3.9%, (c) Manchester Withington - 2.8%. The Disclosure and Barring Service is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The average time taken in days to process disclosures checks in the last three years is as follows:
Time Period | Average waiting time - United Kingdom | Average waiting time - Manchester Withington |
Oct-13 to Sep-14 | 13.4 | 12.0 |
Oct-14 to Sep-15 | 14.4 | 12.1 |
Oct-15 to Sep-16 | 15.5 | 12.6 |
The average processing time for applications to the DBS for each police force area in England from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016 is set out in the table below. This shows the average number of days each application took from the point at which the application form was received to the date the certificate was issued, broken down by the applicant’s geographical police force area. This information reflects all applications sent to the DBS, of which a proportion are sent to police forces for consideration for disclosure.
Police Force Area in which applicant lives | Average time taken in calendar days |
Metropolitan | 28.1 |
Cumbria | 11.5 |
Lancashire | 11.6 |
Merseyside | 12.1 |
Greater Manchester | 14.1 |
Cheshire | 11.1 |
Northumbria | 13.9 |
Durham | 11.9 |
North Yorkshire | 14.1 |
West Yorkshire | 12.7 |
South Yorkshire | 19.8 |
Humberside | 12.2 |
Cleveland | 13.5 |
West Midlands | 10.3 |
Staffordshire | 9.6 |
West Mercia | 11.9 |
Warwickshire | 9.4 |
Derbyshire | 14.1 |
Nottinghamshire | 11.7 |
Lincolnshire | 10.5 |
Leicestershire | 9.4 |
Northamptonshire | 17.9 |
Cambridgeshire | 10.1 |
Norfolk | 9.1 |
Suffolk | 9.9 |
Bedfordshire | 11.6 |
Hertfordshire | 14.8 |
Essex | 14.2 |
Thames Valley | 16.1 |
Hampshire | 14.2 |
Surrey | 14.1 |
Kent | 15.8 |
Sussex | 11.9 |
City of London | 11.9 |
Devon & Cornwall | 11.3 |
Avon And Somerset | 10.7 |
Gloucester | 10.7 |
Wiltshire | 10.2 |
Dorset | 26.8 |
For a breakdown of how long police forces take to process applications they receive; this information is regularly published on the DBS website and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-performance
Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service for each police force area in England for the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Sarah Newton
In the last 12 months (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016), the proportion of disclosure applications which took longer than 60 days was as follows: (a) the UK - 5.4%, (b) Manchester - 3.9%, (c) Manchester Withington - 2.8%. The Disclosure and Barring Service is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The average time taken in days to process disclosures checks in the last three years is as follows:
Time Period | Average waiting time - United Kingdom | Average waiting time - Manchester Withington |
Oct-13 to Sep-14 | 13.4 | 12.0 |
Oct-14 to Sep-15 | 14.4 | 12.1 |
Oct-15 to Sep-16 | 15.5 | 12.6 |
The average processing time for applications to the DBS for each police force area in England from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016 is set out in the table below. This shows the average number of days each application took from the point at which the application form was received to the date the certificate was issued, broken down by the applicant’s geographical police force area. This information reflects all applications sent to the DBS, of which a proportion are sent to police forces for consideration for disclosure.
Police Force Area in which applicant lives | Average time taken in calendar days |
Metropolitan | 28.1 |
Cumbria | 11.5 |
Lancashire | 11.6 |
Merseyside | 12.1 |
Greater Manchester | 14.1 |
Cheshire | 11.1 |
Northumbria | 13.9 |
Durham | 11.9 |
North Yorkshire | 14.1 |
West Yorkshire | 12.7 |
South Yorkshire | 19.8 |
Humberside | 12.2 |
Cleveland | 13.5 |
West Midlands | 10.3 |
Staffordshire | 9.6 |
West Mercia | 11.9 |
Warwickshire | 9.4 |
Derbyshire | 14.1 |
Nottinghamshire | 11.7 |
Lincolnshire | 10.5 |
Leicestershire | 9.4 |
Northamptonshire | 17.9 |
Cambridgeshire | 10.1 |
Norfolk | 9.1 |
Suffolk | 9.9 |
Bedfordshire | 11.6 |
Hertfordshire | 14.8 |
Essex | 14.2 |
Thames Valley | 16.1 |
Hampshire | 14.2 |
Surrey | 14.1 |
Kent | 15.8 |
Sussex | 11.9 |
City of London | 11.9 |
Devon & Cornwall | 11.3 |
Avon And Somerset | 10.7 |
Gloucester | 10.7 |
Wiltshire | 10.2 |
Dorset | 26.8 |
For a breakdown of how long police forces take to process applications they receive; this information is regularly published on the DBS website and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-performance
Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester, Withington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking (a) to ensure that children who have migrated across the Mediterranean are adequately protected when they arrive in Europe and (b) in relocating highly vulnerable, unaccompanied children to the UK.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The protection of unaccompanied children is the responsibility of the country in which they are located, which will often be Italy where they have crossed the Mediterranean.
The EU Dublin Regulation includes family unity provisions which may enable an asylum seeker to come to the UK if they have close family members legally residing here. There are also provisions under our family reunification policy to enable this to take place. In other cases we do not believe that relocation of illegal migrants is the answer.
It simply moves the problem from one country to another, rather than dealing with it at source and in the case of children would add unnecessary further disruption to already vulnerable cases.
Instead, we should continue to focus on practical co-operation to assist those frontline Member States under pressure and to deal with the human traffickers who are exploiting these vulnerable migrants.