Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
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 between first application for and being granted a UK visa for applications from Malawi in each month since June 2010.
Answered by James Brokenshire
UKVI customer service standards are to assess all visitor applications within 15 working days and all settlement applications within 60 working days, and the UKVI operation in Pretoria continues to meet these customer service standards, including for Malawian applications.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of Malawians visiting the UK with a visa and at the invitation of a UK-based organisation who have (a) absconded and (b) engaged in criminal activity while in the UK in each month since June 2010.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not hold the data requested in the format required. To obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints her Department has received about the system for online applications for UK visas from Malawi in each month since December 2013.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The UKVI operation in Pretoria maintains a complaints register and can confirm that no customers have contacted officials in Pretoria directly from Malawi to complain about the online application process.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of how many online applications for UK visas from Malawi have been started but remain uncompleted since December 2013.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not hold the data requested.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the energy efficiency industry in each year since 2005.
Answered by Amber Rudd
A report published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills contains estimates of the number of jobs supported across the wider low carbon and environmental goods and services sector. The report, published in July 2013, is available here:
The report does not explicitly refer to the energy efficiency sector, but it does present estimates of employment in the low carbon building technologies and energy management sectors from 2007/08 to 2011/12 (figures for earlier years are not available). The estimates of employment in the two sectors contained within the report include both those employed directly and those employed indirectly in the wider supply chain.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of applicants from Malawi for UK visas for whom a UK sponsor will pay who have been rejected because they cannot prove they have enough funds to visit the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The data requested is not held by the Home Office. However, the majority of Malawian visa applications (86%) are successful.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an applicant's financial status is a consideration in the process of applying for a UK visa from Malawi; and whether such applicants are required to submit (a) bank statements and (b) pay slips.
Answered by James Brokenshire
All visa applications from anywhere in the world are considered on their individual merits in line with the immigration rules. Applicants should provide evidence to show that they meet the rules, and that their circumstances are as
they outline. Those intending to visit the UK should provide evidence to show that they can be adequately accommodated and supported during their stay, and that they can meet the cost of their onward journey. We do not mandate
documentary requirements, however guidance for applicants on supporting documents is available online.
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the low carbon and environmental goods and services sector in each year since 2005.
Answered by Amber Rudd
A report published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills contains estimates of the number of jobs within the wider low carbon and environmental goods and services sector from 2007/08 to 2011/12 (figures for earlier years are not available) and can be found at:
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of how many jobs there will be in the low carbon and environmental goods and services sector in each year from 2015 to 2030.
Answered by Amber Rudd
The Department of Energy and Climate Change does not have an overall estimate of jobs in the low carbon and environmental goods and services sector in each year from 2015 to 2030.
However, the Department recently published a comprehensive assessment of investment and employment in UK energy sectors1, including an estimate that Electricity Market Reform will help support up to 250,000 jobs in low carbon electricity generation by 2020.
[1] DECC (July 2014) Delivering UK Energy Investment: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/331071/DECC_Energy_Investment_Report.pdf
Asked by: Tom Greatrex (Labour (Co-op) - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) Green Deal assessments, (b) Green Deal plans in unique properties and (c) measures installed using Green Deal finance in each month since January 2013 in (i) Scotland, (ii) England and (iii) Wales.
Answered by Amber Rudd
The Department reports the number of (a) Green Deal Assessments, (b) Green Deal Plans in unique properties and (c) measures installed using Green Deal finance by month in the following Official Statistics publication in Tables 2, 3 and 3a respectively:
DECC currently only publish cumulative totals to the end of each quarter for any geographic breakdown tables (i.e. for Scotland, England and Wales). My department reports the number of Green Deal Assessments, and 'live' Green Deal Plans (with measures installed) in unique properties by region, up to 30th June 2014 in Tables 1.6 and 1.7 respectively in the quarterly official statistics publication:
Cumulative totals to previous totals are also available in previous quarterly publications.