Asked by: Stephen Hammond (Conservative - Wimbledon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average length of time taken to issue biometric residence permit cards to Turkish citizens living in the UK.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Data is not available broken down by nationality in relation to Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) production and delivery times.
Data is published relating to performance against decision making service standards for each application route and can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2021
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) advise applicants they can expect delivery of their Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) within 10 working days of receiving their decision notification.
BRPs are produced on behalf of UKVI by the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA). DVLA have a service level agreement to complete 90% of production requests within one working day and the remaining 10% within two working days. For quarter one of financial year 2021/22 they achieved 85.1% (218,527) within 24 hours and 100% (256,730) within 48 hours. 2.1% (19,250) took longer than 48 hours.
FedEx took over the BRP delivery contract from DX in February 2020, after a bedding in period formal reporting started in July 2020. Between 1 July 2020 and 31 March 2021 FedEx attempted to deliver 99.2% of BRPs within 48 hours of collection from DVLA, against a target to attempt delivery within 48 hours of collection for 99% of BRP packages.
Asked by: Stephen Hammond (Conservative - Wimbledon)
Question to the Home Office:
What estimate she has made of the total number of police officers (a) recruited by the Metropolitan Police in 2020 and (b) due to be recruited by that force in 2021.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
We are increasing the number of police officers across England and Wales by 20,000 by March 2023.
In the calendar year 2020, the Metropolitan police recruited 3,121 police officers. This figure includes officers recruited as part of the Government’s national uplift programme as well as those recruited to backfill leavers. From January to March 2021 the force recruited 598 officers.
Asked by: Stephen Hammond (Conservative - Wimbledon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether representatives of the business travel sector will be included in her Department's industry working group on helping to implement the 14 day quarantine for air passengers entering the UK during the covid-19 pandemic.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Secretary hosted an industry roundtable with the Aviation, Maritime and Security Minister on 4 June to discuss the health measures at the Border. This meeting was attended by representatives from all international travel modes.
The Department is now working with colleagues across HM Government on behalf of the Secretary of State to convene a second round table to further discuss the measures and our plans for reviewing these. Arrangements for this meeting, including attendees, have not yet been determined, but will be identified in due course.
Asked by: Stephen Hammond (Conservative - Wimbledon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the wave 2 police officer recruitment targets for each police force area in England and Wales for 2021-22 will be published.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government is delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 police officers over the next three years. The allocation of the first 6,000 additional officers to be recruited across England and Wales by the end of March 2021 was announced in October 2019.
Allocations for years two and three of the uplift will be considered in the context of the Spending Review.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift