Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the enquiry from the hon. Member for Warley of 25 August 2021 regarding Dilshad Ahmed.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded on 14 December 2021
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Warley dated 18 August 2021 regarding Mr Vieira.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office responded on 7 December 2021.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the cost of providing physical cards as proof of settled status.
Answered by Kevin Foster
If we were required to issue a physical card to everyone who is granted status under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), we would have to provide them with biometric cards akin to the biometric residence permit we plan to phase out by the end of 2024.
During the passage of The Immigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020, we estimated it would cost at least £270m if each of the 3.6m EEA citizens granted leave under the EUSS at that time was provided with a biometric card.
Up to the end of September this year over 5.2 million people had obtained a grant of status under the EUSS. We therefore expect this estimate to now be much higher.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter dated 11 August 2021 from the Rt hon. Member for Warley, regarding Mrs Nzussu.
Answered by Kevin Foster
I apologise for the delay. The Home Office responded on 26 November 2021.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 9 September 2021 from the hon. Member for Warley, regarding Mr Yeung.
Answered by Kevin Foster
I apologise for the delay. The Home Office responded on 26 November 2021.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what HM Passport Office's current timescale is for processing applications for a British passport.
Answered by Kevin Foster
I refer the Right Honourable member to the answer given on 9 September 2021, UIN 43418.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
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 - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
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: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
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 - Minister of State (Home Office)
I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded on 15 July 2021.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
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: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
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.