Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are currently placed in each local authority in England.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
We publish data on asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2021
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Warley of 17 May 2021 regarding Mr Hassan.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 15 July 2021.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Biometric Residence Permits are despatched to applicants within seven days of them receiving their decision letter.
Answered by Kevin Foster
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) advise applicants they can expect delivery of their Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) within 10 working days of receiving their decision notification.
BRPs are produced on behalf of UKVI by the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA). DVLA have a service level agreement to complete 90% of production requests within one working day and the remaining 10% within two working days. For the financial year 2020/21 they achieved 69.3% (630,173) within 24 hours and 97.9% (259,977) within 48 hours. 2.1% (19,250) took longer than 48 hours.
The production of BRPs outside the 48 hour target was the result of a production failure at DVLA over a three working day period between 22 – 26 October 2020. The average processing time of the 19,250 affected was three working days. This will have enabled our secure delivery provider, FedEx, to attempt to deliver all BRPs within 10 working days of the decision notification being issued.
FedEx took over the BRP delivery contract from DX in February 2020, after a bedding in period formal reporting started in July 2020. Between 1 July 2020 and 31 March 2021 FedEx attempted to deliver 99.2% of BRPs within 48 hours of collection from DVLA, against a target to attempt delivery within 48 hours of collection for 99% of BRP packages.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter dated 1 April 2021 from the hon. Member for Warley regarding Mr Moghadam.
Answered by Kevin Foster
A response was sent to the Rt Hon Member on 10 June 2021.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter dated 23 March 2021 from the hon. Member for Warley regarding Ms Clovia Donegal.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), MP Account Management Team responded on 8 June 2021
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle crash-for-cash car insurance fraud.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Government is aware criminals are committing these crimes, without any regard to the safety of fellow road users. We are clear this is unacceptable, and it is a priority to ensure these fraudsters have no space to operate.
The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) works tirelessly to bring ‘Crash for Cash’ criminals to justice. Since the unit was established, investigations conducted by IFED have led to the convictions of hundreds of insurance fraudsters.
We, law enforcement and private sector partners continue to provide advice to the public on how to avoid these crimes and what to do they have fallen victim.
The Government has agreed to work with the private sector to develop a new action plan to tackle fraud, including insurance fraud, to close vulnerabilities in the system and to strengthen the law enforcement response.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to provide a substantive response to the letter of 14 December 2020 from the hon. Member for Warley on Mr Gamaralalage.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 2 March 2021
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 20 January 2021 from the Rt Hon Member for Warley regarding Mr A Ahmedzai.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 25 March 2021.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Warley of 27 January 2021 on Mr Ahmed Jubran.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 19 March 2021.
Asked by: Lord Spellar (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Warley of 3 December 2020 on Mr Abdul Rahi.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 1 March 2021.