Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a refusal notice that does not (a) clearly explain the reasoning for a credibility finding and (b) accurately reflect information given at interview constitutes a casework error for the purposes of administrative review.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The published caseworker guidance and Immigration Rules for Administrative Review define what may be a caseworking error.
The same guidance provides a section on reviewing credibility refusals which states:
When considering an application for administrative review on the basis that the original caseworker made a caseworking error when assessing the credibility of the applicant, the correct test to apply is whether it is more likely than not, based on the evidence and facts available, that the original decision maker made the right decision that the applicant is not credible’, and which signposts the reviewer to review any interview undertaken.
The caseworker guidance is published at: Administrative review.docx
The Immigration Rules are published at: Immigration Rules - Immigration Rules Appendix Administrative Review - Guidance - GOV.UK
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Student route entry clearance refusals made under paragraph ST 5.1 of the Immigration Rules were subject to administrative review in each year since 2021; and how many were overturned.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to determine administrative reviews of Student route entry clearance refusals in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for administrative review of Student route entry clearance refusals were received in each year since 2021; and how many of those resulted in the original decision being withdrawn.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Equitable Life policyholders eligible to receive compensation under the Equitable Life Payment Scheme were untraced and did not receive payments; and how many of those untraced policyholders are estimated to have been in the constituency of Clapham and Brixton Hill.
Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
Information relating to tracing policyholders and where payments could not be made is provided in the Equitable Life Payment Scheme: final report - GOV.UK. Details relating to policyholder locations are not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Equitable Life Policyholders in the constituency of Clapham and Brixton Hill were eligible for receipt of a payment under the Equitable Life Payment Scheme; and received a payment under the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.
Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
Information relating to tracing policyholders and where payments could not be made is provided in the Equitable Life Payment Scheme: final report - GOV.UK. Details relating to policyholder locations are not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to coordinate its review of substances of human origin legislation with proposed reforms to medical device regulation, to avoid regulatory duplication and unnecessary barriers for manufacturers of devices used in the collection, processing, storage and transfusion of blood and blood components.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of establishing a UK Substance of Human Origin Coordination Office to support cooperation between regulators, devolved health administrations, national blood and transplant services, and industry.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her Department plans to publish (a) the findings of its call for evidence on the review of UK legislation governing substances of human origin and (b) a timetable for any resulting legislative proposals.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Clapham and Brixton Hill)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking to ensure that the data held on the CNIS register is not shared with an abuser who retains their entitledment via parental responsibility.
Answered by Paul Waugh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department recognises that those previously affected by abuse may have concerns about the information collected for the Children Not in School registers. The department will set out local authorities’ data protection responsibilities clearly in the new statutory guidance, particularly where children and parents have experienced abuse, and will consider whether additional training is required in our training package to local authorities.
It is important that local authorities can identify all children not in school in their areas, and children who have experienced abuse may be amongst those most in need of support. Existing laws, including the Data Protection Act and UK-GDPR, will apply to all data that is processed as part of the duty to maintain registers.
The department will continue to engage with the Information Commissioner’s Office to ensure that appropriate mitigations are in place for any risks identified, and with organisations such as Women’s Aid, Safe Lives, and the NSPCC on these issues.