Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people due to be deported under the Rwanda Scheme will be held at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Campsfield House immigration removal centre (IRC), in line with other IRCs, will hold a mixture of time-served foreign national offenders and immigration offenders while we prepare to remove them from the UK.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claimants from (a) Afghanistan, (b) Eritrea, (c) Syria, (d) Yemen and (e) Libya were asked to fill in a questionnaire to fast track their application; and how many have had their claims (i) processed and (ii) granted since the questionnaire was introduced.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The number of claimants who have been asked to fill in a questionnaire to fast track their application and how many have had their claims processed are granted since the questionnaire was introduced is not information currently held in a reportable format.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications made in Sudan for citizenship registrations are currently awaiting a decision (a) in total and (b) for children.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office is unable to provide the data requested as it is not available.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications are currently outstanding for Sudanese nationals applying for entry clearance to the UK on a (a) Spouse and family (b) family reunion visa.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The number of outstanding applications are published in quarterly transparency data, but these are not broken down by nationality.
The most recent data can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time was for a standard visitor visa to be processed by the (a) nationality and (b) region of origin of applicants in the last 10 years.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on granted Visitor visas, by nationality and region of nationality, are published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to Q4 2022 (October to December).
The Home Office publishes data on the percentage of applications of Visitor visas processed within Service Standards in VSI_02 of the Visa and Citizenship Transparency data. The latest data relates to Q3 2021 (July to September).
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many standard visitor visas were processed by her Department by the (i) nationality and (ii) region of origin of applicants in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on granted Visitor visas, by nationality and region of nationality, are published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to Q4 2022 (October to December).
The Home Office publishes data on the percentage of applications of Visitor visas processed within Service Standards in VSI_02 of the Visa and Citizenship Transparency data. The latest data relates to Q3 2021 (July to September).
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) applications and (b) decisions for standard visitors visas were made in each of the last twelve months.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on Entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on granted Visitor visas, by nationality and region of nationality, are published in table Vis_D02 of the ‘Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes detailed datasets’. The latest data relates to Q4 2022 (October to December).
The Home Office publishes data on the percentage of applications of Visitor visas processed within Service Standards in VSI_02 of the Visa and Citizenship Transparency data. The latest data relates to Q3 2021 (July to September).
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing a bereaved family member to register the death of a family member via the telephone.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
No formal assessment has been made.
The General Register Office for England and Wales is exploring options to bring forward amendments to primary legislation to allow informants more flexibility in how they register deaths in the future.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications of her policy of requiring bereaved families to register deaths in person at a Registration Office.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
No formal assessment has been made.
The General Register Office for England and Wales is exploring options to bring forward amendments to primary legislation to allow informants more flexibility in how they register deaths in the future.
Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which individuals on the UK sanctions list (a) have and (b) have previously possessed Tier 1 (Investor) visas.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat
We do not routinely comment on the immigration status of individuals.