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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 May 2019
Serious Violence

"Will the Home Secretary clarify whether in the terms of reference for Dame Carol Black he has specifically ruled out decriminalisation or legalisation from the scope of the review?..."
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Written Question
Asylum: Applications
Wednesday 1st May 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have provided further submissions for their asylum claims after initially having their claim refused in each of the last five years.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

Home Office records report that, between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018, a total of 28,953 people lodged Further Submissions after initially having their asylum claim refused. A breakdown for each year is provided in the table below.

Since March 2015, the Home Office has required non-detained refused asylum seekers to lodge Further Submissions by appointment at the Further Submissions Unit based in Liverpool.

The figures in the table note how many people lodged a Further Submission at the Further Submissions Unit, and how many people lodged their submission by a different route, including cases where a Further Submission was raised in detention and cases where a Further Submission is raised during the Family Returns Process.

Table showing breakdown of people who made Further Submissions following refusal of asylum between 2014 and 2018

YearSubmission not made in person in LiverpoolSubmission made in person at Further Submissions Unit in Liverpool(Total)
2014--4,521
20151,9712,1244,095
20161,4203,3244,744
20171,5465,0536,599
20181,6187,3768,994
(Total)6,55517,87728,953

Written Question
Windrush Generation: Criminal Records
Thursday 25th April 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of the Windrush generation have been refused UK citizenship in each year since 2010 as a result of having a criminal record.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

We are unable to provide the information requested as this would involve undertaking a manual trawl of individual cases which would incur dispropor-tionate cost.

The number of overall refusals and those refused on criminality grounds for all citizenship casework is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship - cz_09 for all refusals of citizenship by main reason.

Additionally, the Home Secretary provides regular updates to the Home Af-fairs Select Committee on the work of the Department in connection with Windrush. These updates can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush


Written Question
Windrush Generation: Criminal Records
Thursday 25th April 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush generation people were refused UK citizenship as a result of a (a) prison sentence of (i) over four years, (ii) between two and four years, (iii) between 12 months and two years, (iv) 12 months or less, (b) community order, (c) fine ,(d) caution, (e) reprimand and (f) formal warning.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

We are unable to provide the information requested as this would involve undertaking a manual trawl of individual cases which would incur dispropor-tionate cost.

The number of overall refusals and those refused on criminality grounds for all citizenship casework is published as part of the Migration Transparency data, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#citizenship - cz_09 for all refusals of citizenship by main reason.

Additionally, the Home Secretary provides regular updates to the Home Af-fairs Select Committee on the work of the Department in connection with Windrush. These updates can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/correspondence-on-the-work-of-the-home-office-windrush


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Apr 2019
Windrush Compensation Scheme

"(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary if he will make a statement on the Windrush compensation scheme...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Apr 2019
Windrush Compensation Scheme

"I should not need to remind anyone in this House that the Windrush scandal is a national disgrace. At least 11 people who were wrongly deported from the UK by their own Government have died. At least 164 British citizens were wrongly deported or detained. Home Office officials have told …..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 8th April 2019

Asked by: David Lammy (Labour - Tottenham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister of State for Immigration plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Tottenham dated 14 November 2018.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

I can confirm that a response was dispatched on 20 December 2018.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Apr 2019
Windrush Compensation Scheme

"Will the Home Secretary undertake to publicise the scheme as widely as the EU settlement scheme? Will he ensure that there is no use of non-disclosure agreements around how much compensation people get? Many people were driven into poverty and therefore crime as a consequence of the scandal, so will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Knife Crime

"The public health approach in Scotland also involved a cross-party approach, with much of the work beginning under Labour and continuing under the Scottish National party. The whole House wants the Home Secretary to succeed, but we have been on alert since Tanesha Melbourne-Blake was killed in my constituency on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Feb 2019
Serious Violence

"I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I have worked with the Home Secretary and the Minister on these issues, and I am grateful to them for extending an invitation to me to the serious violence taskforce...."
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