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Written Question
Biometric Residence Permits and Work Permits
Wednesday 27th April 2022

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) biometric residence cards, (b) biometric residence permits and (c) frontier working permits were issued in the last 12 months for which data is available.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The information requested is not available in a reportable format.


Written Question
Offensive Weapons
Wednesday 17th November 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to include butter knives in the exemptions in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) (Exemption) Order 1996.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

Tackling knife crime is a priority and the Government is determined to crack down on the scourge of violence devastating our communities.

Section 141A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 created the offence of selling any knife, knife blade, razor blade, axe or any other article which has a blade or which is sharply pointed and which is made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, to a person under the age of 18. In Scotland, the word ‘axe’ has been added to this list of prohibited items. Originally the age limit was 16 and this was raised to 18 by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006


Written Question
Asylum: Employment
Friday 24th September 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been granted permission to work as a result of the time taken for her Department process their case in last 12 months.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office are unable to state how many asylum seekers have been granted permission to work as a result of the time take taken for the Department to process their cases in the last 12 months as the data is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format.

However, the Home Office do publish data on the number asylum applications awaiting an initial decision or further review and can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics, Asylum applications awaiting a decision, by duration:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-applications-decisions-and-resettlement


Written Question
Asylum
Thursday 23rd September 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have been awaiting a decision from her Department for over 12 months.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office does publish data on how many initial asylum applications are awaiting a decision and by duration , but only up to and including June 2021. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2021/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement


Written Question
Asylum
Thursday 23rd September 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims are awaiting resolution as at 16 September 2021.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office does publish data on how many initial asylum applications are awaiting a decision and by duration , but only up to and including June 2021. This data can be found at Asy_04 of the published Immigration Statistics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2021/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement


Written Question
Extradition Act 2003: Arrests
Wednesday 10th March 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2021 to Question 156290, on Extradition Act 2003: Arrests, for what reason her Department does not hold the information requested; and if she will request that information from the National Crime Agency.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The National Crime Agency is the competent authority for cases which fall under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 and, as such, is the holder of all data relating to arrests under the power provided by that legislation.

Data in relation to extradition under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 will be published by the National Crime Agency in due course in the usual way.


Written Question
Extradition Act 2003: Arrests
Thursday 25th February 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been in the UK under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 on and after 1 January 2021.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Home Office does not hold the information requested.

The National Crime Agency manages requests made under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003.


Written Question
British Nationality: Applications
Tuesday 16th February 2021

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what fee changes she plans to propose for British Citizenship applications in the 2021-22 financial year.

Answered by Kevin Foster

We keep our fees for immigration and nationality applications under review and ensure they are within the parameters agreed with HM Treasury and Parliament, as set out in Section 68 (9) of the Immigration Act 2014.

Child citizenship registration fees are the subject of current litigation. While the court case is ongoing it would not be appropriate to comment on next steps.


Written Question
Immigrants: Coronavirus
Tuesday 12th May 2020

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many no recourse to public funds restrictions have been removed since 23 March 2020.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

Migrants with limited leave to remain under the Family and Human Rights routes can apply to have the no recourse to public funds restriction lifted by making a ‘change of conditions’ application if there has been a change in their financial circumstances.

The information you have requested is not assured to the standard required by ONS for publication and as it would be too costly to do so, we are unable to provide it. However, my department has recently digitised the application form, to make sure it is accessible for those who need to remain at home, and I can assure you that the applications are being prioritised and dealt with swiftly and compassionately.


Written Question
Immigrants: Coronavirus
Tuesday 12th May 2020

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications have been made to lift the no recourse to public funds restrictions by residents with leave to remain since 23 March 2020.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

Migrants with limited leave to remain under the Family and Human Rights routes can apply to have the no recourse to public funds restriction lifted by making a ‘change of conditions’ application if there has been a change in their financial circumstances.

The information you have requested is not assured to the standard required by ONS for publication and as it would be too costly to do so, we are unable to provide it. However, my department has recently digitised the application form, to make sure it is accessible for those who need to remain at home, and I can assure you that the applications are being prioritised and dealt with swiftly and compassionately.