Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the possible compensation due to asylum-seekers as a result of the conditions at Manston asylum centre.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Decisions to detain people are not taken lightly. We will robustly defend decisions subject to legal challenge, when appropriate to do so, with a decision to defend or concede based on the merits of the individual case.
The facility at Manston provides suitable welfare provisions including hot food, fresh clothing, toilet facilities, sanitary packs and medical care. It provides for all the basic needs of people who will have arrived tired, cold, in wet clothing and who may not have eaten during their journey. We will continue to innovate to provide for the basic needs of those in our care and to ensure the safety of everyone at Manston as a priority.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of asylum-seekers in hotel accommodation awaiting an inadmissibility decision.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide accommodation and other support to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute while their application for asylum is being considered.
The significant increase in dangerous journeys across the Channel is placing unprecedented strain on our asylum system and it has made it necessary to continue to use hotels to accommodate some asylum seekers. The use of hotels is a short-term solution and we are working hard with local authorities to find appropriate accommodation.
Statistics relating to supported asylum seekers temporarily residing in contingency accommodation are published as Immigration Statistics under the S98 population tables. The latest publication (March 2022) can be found here Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab), under the document Asylum seekers in receipt of support (second edition)(opens in a new tab).
The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in specific types of accommodation, or the number at specific stages of the asylum process. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average length of time spent by an asylum-seeker waiting for a decision on inadmissibility.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Published statistics on inadmissibility can be found online at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2021/how-many-people-do-we-grant-asylum-or-protection-to#inadmissibility
The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of these statistics which provide an average length of time to reach an inadmissibility decision. Those figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the draft Written Ministerial Statement emailed by the Home Secretary to the hon. Member for South Holland and the Deepings was market sensitive.
Answered by Suella Braverman
I wrote to the Home Affairs Select Committee Chair on 31 October and a copy of the letter was placed in the House Libraries - I refer the Rt. Hon. member to that letter.
Asked by: Yvette Cooper (Labour - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has ever sent (a) classified documents and (b) material from the intelligence services through her personal email address.
Answered by Suella Braverman
I wrote to the Home Affairs Select Committee Chair on 31 October and a copy of the letter was placed in the House Libraries - I refer the hon. member to that letter where both questions are answered.