Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25th May 2022 to Question 5436 on Asylum: Rwanda, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of cuts to legal aid for asylum applications on the ability of people to adequately make representations where they feel deportation to Rwanda would be detrimental to their physical or mental wellbeing.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Decisions on whether to relocate individuals to Rwanda are made on a case-by-case basis depending on the individual circumstances at the time, and in accordance with the inadmissibility guidance available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inadmissibility-third-country-cases.
Everyone considered for relocation will be screened and have access to legal advice, and nobody will be removed if it is unsafe or inappropriate for them.
No changes have been made to legal aid for asylum applications or appeals. Legal aid has been, and will always be, available in asylum cases.
The Government is investing over £8m in legal aid through the Nationality and Borders Act, where legal aid will be available for potential victims of modern slavery and where individuals have been served with a priority removal notice.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will review the national retention rules for the police national computer system to bring them in line with the management of police information principles of proportionality and necessity.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The retention rules for the Police National Computer are set by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), and are currently under review.
The NPCC, working closely with criminal justice partners, the Home Office, the Information Commissioner’s Office as well as key stakeholders, are exploring as part of this review whether any changes should be made.
In doing so, the review team will consider the implications of the five chief constables case and the more recent Broadfoot judgment (2021 PNC retention judgment).
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to publish data on the number of people deprived of citizenship status under section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981 in 2019 and 2020.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Data concerning the number of people deprived of their British citizenship is published by the Government in its Transparency Report on Disruptive Powers.
The Government is committed to publishing the annual Transparency Report on Disruptive Powers. The 2020 report will be published in due course.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deprived of their British citizenships in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020, under Section 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Figures for numbers of conducive deprivation orders, which are made under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, have been published as part of the HM Government Transparency Report: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers. Four reports have been published to date in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020 which provide the number of deprivation of citizenship orders made up until the end of 2018.
The Home Office also intends to publish the figures of those deprived under Section 40(2) of the 1981 British Nationality Act in 2019 and 2020 in due course.