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Refugees: Notice Period for Home Office Accommodation - Question (18 Dec 2023)

Lord Sharpe of Epsom: My Lords, the current practice is that individuals remain on asylum support and in asylum accommodation for 28 days from the point of the biometric residence permit being issued. This means that individuals have longer than 28 days’ notice after receiving their grant of leave to make onward arrangements.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards (18 Dec 2023)

Layla Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time was between an immigration decision being made and a biometric residence permit being delivered in the last six months.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits (18 Dec 2023)

Alison Thewliss: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many biometric residence cards were reprinted due to errors on those cards in each of the last seven years.

Backbench Business: Persecution of Buddhists: Tibet — [Valerie Vaz in the Chair] (14 Dec 2023)

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ...are estimated to be more than 700 political prisoners held in Tibetan areas and monks in particular are targeted for persecution. Reports continue to document the mass collection of DNA and other biometric data in Tibetan regions. On forced labour, the Government are aware of UN reporting from April 2023 on allegations of so-called “labour transfer” and “vocational training”...

Refugees: Homelessness - Question (13 Dec 2023)

Lord German: My Lords, the biometric residence permit gives successful asylum claimants access to public services, including, crucially, access to cash and funding for housing. What progress has the department made in bringing the notice to vacate closer to the time when it provides the permit? Bringing those closer together would give people the full time available to them to find appropriate housing...

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits (12 Dec 2023)

Layla Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average processing time to print a Biometric Residence Permit after a decision to grant leave to remain has been issued.

Written Answers — Home Office: Visas: Gaza (12 Dec 2023)

Tom Pursglove: ...to enter or remain in the UK; or are non-visa nationals. Individuals including child dependents of UK residents who do not meet these criteria will have to make a visa application, and enrol their biometrics at a visa application centre(VAC) / biometric enrolment location in a nearby country. VACs in nearby countries are operating as normal but applicants should only travel if it is safe...

Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 1 (11 Dec 2023)

Lord Fox: ...processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership; data concerning health or sexual orientation; biometric or genetic data that uniquely identifies an individual; and data regarding an alleged offence by an individual. Does Schedule 10 apply in the case of data identified as “low” or “no”...

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards (11 Dec 2023)

Seema Malhotra: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Biometric Residence Permits have been affected by technical issues in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Age Assurance and Proof of Identity ( 8 Dec 2023)

Tom Pursglove: ...the Home Office to improve their ability to effectively determine the age of illegal entrants making disputed claims to be children. As part of an asylum seeker’s identity checks we capture their biometric and biographical information and check them against a range of domestic and international law enforcement databases. We enrol the fingerprints of all asylum seekers aged five years or...

Business of the House ( 7 Dec 2023)

Penny Mordaunt: .... More recently, I have spent time on the water in the Mediterranean and northern Libya tracking migration and people-trafficking routes. When I was in Greece and Italy, I saw how the EU’s biometric scanners in its southern ports had not even been uncovered and unwrapped, and how Europe’s security was being failed. I have opened my home to refugees: I have been hosting a Ukrainian...

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits ( 6 Dec 2023)

Matt Western: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recent technical issue with the processing and issuing of Biometric Resident Permits has been; what steps his Department is taking to resolve that issue; and what estimate he has made of when that work will be complete.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits ( 6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Biometric Residence Permits were issued within 10 days of a person receiving their decision confirming their refugee status since 1 August 2023.

Written Answers — Home Office: Police: Biometrics ( 5 Dec 2023)

Lord Strasburger: To ask His Majesty's Government whether police forces can use facial recognition technology to search against photographs from (1) the passport database, (2) the EU Settled Status database, and (3) the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database, to identify people suspected of offences.

Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Regret ( 4 Dec 2023)

Baroness Lister of Burtersett: ...fees are raised, as anticipated, someone on the 10-year route could be paying as much as nearly £19,000 in total for just one adult, never mind children, and excluding the cost of registering biometrics, which must be done at every application. Can the Minister tell us when the repeated extension application fees will be raised; or, better still, can he reassure us that they will not be,...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Finance ( 4 Dec 2023)

Stephen Morgan: ...the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of starting the 28 day notice period for the end of asylum support 10 days after the issue of a Biometric Residence Permit.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometrics: Retail Trade (30 Nov 2023)

Dawn Butler: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had discussions with private facial recognition surveillance suppliers on use of live facial recognition in the retail sector.

Refugee Family Reunion Routes: Sudan (29 Nov 2023)

Stuart McDonald: ...it to South Sudan where there is also not a visa application centre—but surely, particularly in the case of children, it is too much to ask them to make a dangerous journey such as that to supply biometric information. There should be some sort of presumption against the need to provide biometric information, or at least a willingness to consider deferring it before the Home Office even...

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: New Clause 36 - Retention of biometric data and recordable offences (29 Nov 2023)

New Clause 36 - Retention of biometric data and recordable offences

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill: New Clause 37 - Retention of pseudonymised biometric data (29 Nov 2023)

New Clause 37 - Retention of pseudonymised biometric data


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