Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many re-documentation interviews were scheduled to take place on 4 December 2018 for each nationality of interviewee.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not held in a reportable format.
Interviews for re-documentation are a standard part of Home Office engagement with the countries of return. Interviews take place at the request of the receiving country to confirm the nationality and identity of the person being returned in order for a travel document to be produced and only occur after an immigration application has been refused or a decision to return has been made.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on incidents of damage or loss to large quantities of immigration records in the last 20 years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The department has no central record of any incident of damage or loss to large quantities of immigration records in the last twenty years.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of records of immigration status that have been (a) lost and (b) damaged in the last 20 years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Case Information Database (CID) has been the source immigration case working system since 1998. Individual records of immigration status have therefore been digitised for the last 20 years. CID undergoes nightly back-ups to tape and has replication between the primary and secondary data centres.
There has been no systematic loss of immigration status records. Where any individual cases are identified or raised as having incorrect or incomplete records, these are treated as an absolute priority.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people who report to immigration reporting centres receive financial support from the Home Office to do so.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Financial support to enable attendance at a reporting centre is determined on a case by case basis by the Home Office and is dependent on a number of factors including the current status of an individual’s case, proximity to an immigration reporting centre location and any exceptional circumstances.
An individual who is required to report is able to apply for support and on approval will receive a ticket for their homeward journey and next reporting event.
This system will be replaced nationally by a pre-loaded debit card system which is part of the ongoing transformation of our reporting centres and it is envisaged that all individuals requiring financial support to report will be provided the necessary funds via this system.
The exact proportion of the reporting population who receive such support is not available in an accessible format and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for (a) citizenship, (b) visas and (c) asylum have been refused on the basis of notoriety in each of the last three years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The latest information on citizenship decisions can be found in the UK Visas and Immigration Transparency Data:
Table cZ_09 Shows reasons for refusal. However, this only gives broad reasons for refusal. A case refused on the basis of notoriety would be within the ‘not of good character’ statistic along with many other aspects of good character.
No comparable data is available for visa or asylum applications.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports sent out by his Department were reported as lost in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 to date.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The table below shows the number of newly issued UK passports lost during delivery for 2017 and up to and including July 2018.
There is a three month process in place to allow for investigation and possible recovery. Data of reported delivery losses from August 2018 onwards is therefore not confirmed.
Year | Losses | Total Volume Delivered | % Losses against Deliveries |
2017 | 300 | 6,749,769 | 0.0044 |
2018 (January to July) | 242 | 4,856,755 | 0.005 |
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 181538 on Immigrants: Personal Records, how many times his Department has apologised for providing people with incorrect records of their immigration status in the last 12 months.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The information requested is not available in the format requested and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 181534 on Immigrants: Personal Records, in what location were immigration status records stored before the roll out of INDECS in 1980.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
We do not hold a list of the pre-1980 legacy storage locations for Home Office documents before these were transferred to more recent repositories.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 181534 on Immigrants: Personal Records, how many immigration status records were lost in the roll-out of (a) Case Information Database, (b) Access UK and (c) ATLAS.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Further to the previous answer to Question 181534 which was as follows; CID was delivered through a phased rollout that was initiated with Asylum cases and was then subsequently rolled out to cater for settlement, enforcement and nationality case working processes as well as assisting Borders. CID has been the source immigration case working system for UKVI since 1998, over this time however the department has digitised application routes through a web-based service called Access UK and are in the process of replacing CID functionality with a new product named ATLAS. Please note that paper files are used alongside these systems to aid case working processes.
The Home Office treats information management and data security with upmost sensitivity. Whilst there have been no systematic loss of immigration status records in the roll-outs of the aforementioned systems, as with the migration of any large data mass, occasional discrepancies may occur. Where any cases are identified or raised as having incorrect or incomplete records, these are treated as an absolute priority.
Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports issued by his Department were reported lost in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The number of reports of a lost UK passport received by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in 2017 and 2018 are shown in the table below.
2017 365,422
2018 (end of September) 307,345