Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long on average it takes her Department to implement appeals that have been allowed by the First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Where an appeal has been allowed in favour of the appellant, and is not subject to onward appeal, we take all reasonable steps to implement the allowed appeal in a timely manner.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of appeals allowed by the First-tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber up to 4 November 2022 have not yet been implemented.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Where an appeal has been allowed in favour of the appellant, and is not subject to onward appeal, we take all reasonable steps to implement the allowed appeal in a timely manner.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2022 to Question 97679 on Animals in Science Regulation Unit, if she will commission an independent review of the potential benefits of increasing the fees payable for licences under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to generate additional income to increase inspector numbers and reduce cases of non-compliance.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office has no plans to commission an independent review.
The Regulator regularly assesses its requirement for fee income for the delivery of protections to animals in compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
The Regulator’s capacity and capability for service delivery and compliance assurance purposes is aligned with the requirements defined in the legislation.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the fees payable for licences under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 to generate additional income for employing inspectors within the Animals in Science Regulation Unit.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Animals in Science Regulation Unit regularly assesses its requirement for fee income for the delivery of protections to animals in compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA).
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial support is available for individuals who enter the UK under the Ukraine Family Visa Scheme and their UK based families.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Ukrainian nationals coming to the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme are given access to work, benefits and public services as laid down in the Appendix Ukraine to the Immigration Rules, details of which can be found at:
Immigration Rules Appendix Ukraine Scheme - Immigration Rules - Guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling the registration of deaths to take place remotely, rather than requiring attendance at a register office to formally register a death.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Regulations have been introduced which will allow information to be collected by telephone before attendance at a register office to formally register a death.
The General Register Office for England and Wales is exploring options to bring forward amendments to primary legislation which would allow for registration to be completed by telephone in the future.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing and funding a route for Ukrainian scientists to travel to and work in the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
We have established the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine scheme which allow those from Ukraine to come to the UK for a period of up to 36 months.
Those arriving under these schemes will have full unrestricted work rights, allowing them to work for any employer, in any sector and in any role. People on both schemes will have full and unrestricted access to benefits, healthcare, employment and other support. Both schemes are free to apply and there will be no limit to the number of Ukrainians who can benefit.
Separately, other routes continue to exist such as Skilled Worker and Global Talent which would allow Ukrainian scientists to come to the UK using the points-based system.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme in each year since 2016, broken down by country of origin.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people who have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme, by nationality, are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.
Resettlements through the Community Sponsorship Scheme have been published as standalone figures since February 2021. Previously these figures were included within the Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Vulnerable Children Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) data but weren’t separately identifiable.
Figures on the total number of people resettled through community sponsorship scheme prior to this can be found in the 'How many people do we grant asylum or protection to?' chapter of the Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2021 release, (section ‘1.1 Resettlement’). The data are not available broken down by year or nationality prior to February 2021.
Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to December 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme in each year since 2016.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people who have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme, by nationality, are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.
Resettlements through the Community Sponsorship Scheme have been published as standalone figures since February 2021. Previously these figures were included within the Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Vulnerable Children Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) data but weren’t separately identifiable.
Figures on the total number of people resettled through community sponsorship scheme prior to this can be found in the 'How many people do we grant asylum or protection to?' chapter of the Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2021 release, (section ‘1.1 Resettlement’). The data are not available broken down by year or nationality prior to February 2021.
Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to December 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.
Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of eligible applicants in (a) Wales and (b) the rest of the UK who cannot make an application for British citizenship as a result of being unable to pay the non-administrative costs.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on citizenship applications and grants at
Immigration statistics data tables, year ending June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
An incomplete payment is just one of a number of reasons which could lead to an application being rejected and included under the ‘rejected applications’ heading in Table 4.
The Home Office does not have accessible management information on applications rejected in Wales specifically, as a result of being unable to pay the non-administrative costs of citizenship fees.
Fees are regularly reviewed and set within the parameters agreed by Parliament in section 68 of the Immigration Act 2014.