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 13 October 2020 regarding Mr Ebad Amiri.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts responded on 26 November 2020.
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 of 12 November 2020 on the operation of Sarah's Law.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
A response was provided by the Minister for Safeguarding on 18 December 2020.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Minister of State for Immigration plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Warley of 5 November 2020 on Mr Ellis.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Minister for Future Borders and Immigration responded on 16 December 2020.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for a Security Industry Authority licence have been outstanding for more than (a) one month and (b)(i) three and (ii) six months.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
As at 8 December 2020, the SIA had 8,034 applications awaiting a decision. Of these, 4,021 had been outstanding for 29 days or less and 2,039 outstanding for between 30 days and 3 months. 946 had been outstanding for 3 months and 1 day to 6 months. The remaining 1,028 had been outstanding for over 6 months and 1 day.
The SIA receives an average of 140,000 individual licence applications per year. The reasons applications are held open over 25 days are mainly due to action required by third parties or information from the applicant, for example, awaiting medical consents and/or reports, overseas criminality certificate exceptions (requiring sworn oaths and acceptable character references) or the results from criminality disclosure agencies and/or overseas embassies in the case of overseas checks.
Asked by: John Spellar (Labour - Warley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeframe is for signing off on the pay settlement for staff of the Independent Office for Police Conduct
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The pay remit process is set out in the Civil Service pay remit guidance 2020/21 published 18 May 2020. Under this guidance Pay Awards for Arms Length Bodies (ALBs), such as the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), must be approved by the relevant Minister, and then the Home Secretary. There is no laid down timeframe for this approval process.
The IOPC pay award proposals are currently under consideration by the relevant Minister and will be with the Home Secretary shortly.
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 waiting to be interviewed.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not publish information on how many asylum seekers are waiting to be interviewed as this does not form part of routinely published data.
However, the Home Office does publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision by duration, for main applicants only. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics:
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 of 8 September 2020 on Mrs Abukshim.
Answered by Kevin Foster
A reply was sent on 4 December 2020.
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 8 October 2020 on Mr Musa.
Answered by Kevin Foster
A reply was sent on 4 December 2020.
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 of 15 October 2020 from the right hon. Member for Warley regarding Mrs Zankanah.
Answered by Kevin Foster
A reply has been sent on 4 December 2020.