Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many emails were received by her Department in each year from 2017 from people outside the UK relating to (a) border, (b) immigration and (c) citizenship services.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not record the country of origin of emails nor do we categorise emails according to ‘border’, ‘immigration’ or ‘citizenship services’.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many priority service visas were not processed within five days in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
At present there is no data available for 2022 and 2023. The Home Office expects to reintroduce this data in the next publication scheduled for 25th May 2023.
The published statistics which includes data on performance against Service Level Agreement for Standard, Priority and Super priority visas up to the end of Q3 2021 can be found in this link (Data tab VSI_02): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1058196/UKVI_VC_Transparency_Q4_2021_Published.ods.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many priority service visas were processed within five days in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
At present there is no data available for 2022 and 2023. The Home Office expects to reintroduce this data in the next publication scheduled for 25th May 2023.
The published statistics which includes data on performance against Service Level Agreement for Standard, Priority and Super priority visas up to the end of Q3 2021 can be found in this link (Data tab VSI_02): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1058196/UKVI_VC_Transparency_Q4_2021_Published.ods.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many households have received support through the Alternative Fuel Payment Scheme.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Alternative Fund for the Alternative Fuel Payment, the element which requires an application, launched recently on 6 March and early data is still being collected. Electricity suppliers, who deliver the automatic enrolment element of the scheme, recently provided MPAN-level delivery data to the Government. Transparency data will be published in due course.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of the Illegal Migration Bill with (a) the 1951 Refugee Convention, (b) the European Convention on Human Rights and (c) the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Law Officers’ Convention prevents me from disclosing outside Government whether I have been asked to provide advice or the contents of any such advice. This is a longstanding and well-known principle of Cabinet collective agreement. |
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of clauses 21 to 28 of the Illegal Migration Bill with Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Law Officers’ Convention prevents me from disclosing outside Government whether I have been asked to provide advice or the contents of any such advice. This is a longstanding and well-known principle of Cabinet collective agreement. |
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment she has made of the (a) scope of delegated powers granted to Ministers under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill and (b) potential effect of those powers on the principles of (i) democracy, (ii) the rule of law and (iii) Parliamentary sovereignty.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Law Officers’ Convention prevents me from disclosing outside Government whether I have been asked to provide advice or the contents of any such advice. This is a longstanding and well-known principle of Cabinet collective agreement. |
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on Universal Credit assessment periods.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
There are no plans to change the assessment period and payment structure of Universal Credit.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making both parents in a joint custody agreement eligible for the Universal Credit child element for that child.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
No such assessment has been made.
DWP does not hold information on custody arrangements between all parents claiming benefits.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of household food insecurity on households across the UK.
Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The United Kingdom Food Security Report 2021 includes analysis of food security at household level. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently published new data from the Family Resources Survey on household food security, giving a better understanding of who is most at risk. DWP has also included new questions in the family resources survey for 2021/22 which will be published in March 2023 and will further expand evidence in this area.
DWP is responsible for wider poverty policy, of which household food insecurity is one element.