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Written Question
Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions
Thursday 11th January 2024

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who have (a) arrived in the UK on a Health and Care Worker visa and (b) subsequently applied for a different type of visa since 2020.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Home Office does not record or hold any data on these matters.


Written Question
Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions
Thursday 11th January 2024

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who have (a) arrived in and (b) subsequently left the UK on a Health and Care Worker visa since 2020.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Home Office does not record or hold any data on these matters.


Written Question
Visas: Care Workers and Health Professions
Thursday 11th January 2024

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who were issued a Health and Care Worker visa since 2020 remain employed in the health and social care sector.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

The Home Office does not record or hold any data on these matters.


Written Question
Anti-social Behaviour: Caravan Sites
Thursday 1st June 2023

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local police forces use their powers to (a) tackle anti-social behaviour on illegal traveller encampment sites and (b) prevent the creation of those illegal encampments.

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

This Government recognises the misery that unauthorised encampments can cause and that is why we have delivered on our manifesto commitment to give the police the powers they need to tackle those people on unauthorised encampments who cause harm.

Through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, we introduced a new criminal offence for those who cause or are likely to cause significant damage, disruption and distress, without first requiring a police direction. This enables the police to take quicker and more effective enforcement action where significant harm is happening.

The measures also extend the powers of the police to direct trespassers to leave land.

How police use these powers is an operational matter for the Chief Constable of each local force. The Home Office liaise regularly with the National Police Chiefs Council regarding how these powers are being used.


Written Question
Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
Tuesday 4th April 2023

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a timetable for the cessation of the use of the Great Northern Hotel in Peterborough as asylum accommodation.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Due to the continued pressures on the Asylum Estate, we are needing to use emergency accommodation hotels for a longer period that originally envisaged, and this has resulted in the conversion of this hotel to lo0nger term contingency accommodation.

There is no plan to decant this site and by using this site as longer-term contingency accommodation, there should be more of a settled residency staying in the hotel until they are dispersed into longer term accommodation. Service users will be supported to registered with health services, access school places, engagement with other local services such as ESOL, engage NGOs for more long terms support (over and above that provided by Migrant Help), accessing local faith groups.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 4th April 2023

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter of 25 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Peterborough on a hotel in Peterborough being stood up for asylum accommodation.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

A response will be provided shortly.


Written Question
Asylum: Offshoring
Thursday 8th December 2022

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration has been given to using (a) Ascension Island and (b) the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia for the offshore processing of asylum seekers.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

While individuals are endangering lives making perilous journeys, every possible option must be considered to reduce the draw of the UK.

We are in constant dialogue with a range of partners about how we can work together. We will not get drawn into speculation on potential options for offshoring of asylum processing or other outsourcing arrangements.


Written Question
Refugees: Ukraine
Monday 20th June 2022

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that Roma refugees from Ukraine are (a) able to reach the UK and (b) treated fairly in the visa application process.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Ukraine Family Scheme allows applicants to join family members or extend their stay in the UK.

The Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their family members to come to the UK if they have a named sponsor under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK. This revision to the process can mean applicants who submitted their applications at the same time, but via different biometric routes, may not receive their visas at the same time.

Each case is treated fairly and judged on merit, taking into account the individual circumstances of the case.


Written Question
Travellers: Caravan Sites
Monday 13th July 2020

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

What plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a new offence of intentional trespass to help prevent unlawful traveller encampments.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

Although the majority of travellers obey the law, we recognise that unauthorised encampments can cause significant distress.

We consulted on measures to enable the police to tackle unauthorised encampments more effectively and will publish a response to the consultation in due course.


Written Question
Travellers: Caravan Sites
Friday 12th June 2020

Asked by: Paul Bristow (Conservative - Peterborough)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a new offence of intentional trespass to tackle unlawful traveller encampments.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

Potential measures to criminalise the act of trespassing when setting up an unauthorised encampment in England and Wales were announced in the December 2019 Queen’s Speech for inclusion in the Police Powers and Protection Bill.

On 5 November 2019, the Government launched a consultation seeking views on how best to strengthen police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strengthening-police-powers-to-tackle-unauthorised-encampments. This consultation closed on the 5 March. I will announce the outcome of this consultation in due course.