Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) passports and (b) other documents issued by her Department can be used to prove someone's sex.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
A birth certificate issued by the General Register Office records sex at birth. A British passport issued by HM Passport Office includes a M or F sex marker, denoting the sex of the holder.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an individual without a Gender Recognition Certificate can change the sex displayed on their passport to be different from their sex recorded at birth.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
HM Passport’s Office policy can be found at Gender recognition policy - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The policy was last updated under the previous government in April 2024, and has not been changed since.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) her Department, (b) herself and (c) her ministerial team have not received a substantive response in each month since August 2024.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
On policy correspondence cases that have not yet received a substantive response for each month since August 2024 are in the following table.
Month | Total received | Total Outstanding | Home Secretary response | Other Ministerial response | % outstanding |
August 2024 | 538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
September 2024 | 472 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.2% |
October 2024 | 606 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0.8% |
November 2024 | 625 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1.3% |
December 2024 | 541 | 69 | 3 | 66 | 12.8% |
Total | 2782 | 83 | 4 | 79 | 3% |
Data about intake and performance in answering MP Correspondence on case specific matters (including UK Visa and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Border Force and HM Passport Office) is published quarterly with the latest data available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q3-2024
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adults and (b) children have (i) applied for and (ii) been found eligible to relocate and settle permanently in the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families.
Answered by Seema Malhotra - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK has made an ambitious and generous commitment to help at-risk people in Afghanistan and, so far, we have brought around 32,600 people to safety, including thousands of people eligible for our Afghan schemes. We continue to honour our commitments to bring eligible Afghans to the UK.
The window to submit an expression of interest under ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July 2024. This will remain open until 30 October 2024.
Those who have been resettled in the UK under Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme Pathway 1 and were evacuated during Operation Pitting without their immediate family members can submit an expression of interest under this pathway.
Further information is viewable at: Afghan citizens resettlement scheme: Separated Families Pathway - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data on the number of individuals relocated under this Pathway will be included in future additions of Afghan Operational data. Data on eligibility considerations will not be published. Work is ongoing to consider the expressions of interest submitted thus far as quickly as possible.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form of accommodation has been provided to migrants who were staying on the Bibby Stockholm.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, tackling backlogs to reduce accommodation demands across the system as a whole.
The AASC Statement of Requirements below gives a detailed breakdown of all of the services to be undertaken by our accommodation providers and the standards we expect: http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-1112/AASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf (opens in a new tab).
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form of accommodation is being provided for newly arrived asylum seekers.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, tackling backlogs to reduce accommodation demands across the system as a whole.
The AASC Statement of Requirements below gives a detailed breakdown of all of the services to be undertaken by our accommodation providers and the standards we expect: http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-1112/AASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf (opens in a new tab).
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of asylum claims in which the applicant cites Christian belief as a reason for asylum (a) on arrival and (b) after arriving in the UK in each of the last 10 years; and what assessment he has made of trends in number and proportion of asylum claims in which the applicant cites Christian belief as a reason for asylum (i) on arrival and (ii) after arriving in the UK over that period.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
Information regarding an individual’s reasons for claiming asylum is not recorded in a reportable format. We are reviewing whether we could collect and publish data in this area.
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in relation to modern slavery and the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), (a) how many people were referred to the NRM during 2022; (b) how many cases received a positive reasonable grounds decision during 2022; (c) how many cases received a negative reasonable grounds decision during 2022; (d) how many cases are currently waiting for a reasonable grounds decision; and (e) what recent estimate the Government has made of the (i) number and (ii) proportion of non UK citizens referred to the NRM who may have been referred to that mechanism with the intention of circumventing immigration requirements.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). The 2022 statistics can be found here;
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1139171/modern-slavery-national-referral-mechanism-and-duty-to-notify-statistics-uk-end-of-year-summary-2022.ods.