Robert Jenrick: House in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) properties will be used mainly for single adults but in some cases for families. Families will not, however, share properties with single male adults. No unaccompanied minors will be placed in an HMO property by the Home Office. The Home Office accommodation contracts set out clear minimum standards for all asylum accommodation. This is to ensure compliance...
Robert Jenrick: Over 2,000 people have been evacuated to safety in the longest and largest airlift of any western nation during the crisis in Sudan. As well as British nationals, the UK has also evacuated Sudanese clinicians who work in the NHS. The UK Government is monitoring the situation in Sudan closely to ensure that it is able to respond appropriately. We recognise that some people displaced by the...
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office do not publish health and safety documentation in relation to accommodation sites. Considerations and assessments will remain ongoing, and documentation may be released by the Home Office or other involved government departments if required.
Robert Jenrick: On 23 May, the Government announced a package of measures to tackle the substantial rise in the number of student dependants coming to the UK. This package includes: o Removing the right for international students to bring dependants unless they are on postgraduate courses currently designated as research programmes. o Removing students’ right to switch into a work route before their...
Robert Jenrick: In response to Stephen Shaw’s 2016 review of detention and follow-up report of 2018, the Home Office worked closely with UNHCR to deliver the Community Engagement Pilots.
Robert Jenrick: The Bibby Stockholm vessel, which is to be used as asylum accommodation at Portland will be docked.
Robert Jenrick: The purpose of the Illegal Migration Bill is to prevent and deter all unlawful migration, and in particular migration by unsafe and illegal routes. Those who arrive illegally will be liable to detention and will be swiftly removed to their home country or to a safe third country. The duty to make arrangements for removal will apply to unaccompanied children once they turn 18 and there is a...
Robert Jenrick: UNHCR have appointed the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) to independently evaluate this pilot. We expect them to publish their report soon.
Robert Jenrick: UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK...
Robert Jenrick: We will publish an economic impact assessment in respect of the Bill in due course.
Robert Jenrick: Over 2,000 people have been evacuated to safety in the longest and largest airlift of any western nation during the crisis in Sudan. As well as British nationals, the UK has also evacuated Sudanese clinicians who work in the NHS. The UK Government is monitoring the situation in Sudan closely to ensure that it is able to respond appropriately. We recognise that some people displaced by the...
Robert Jenrick: Under the provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill, those who arrive illegally will be liable to detention and will be removed to their home country or to a safe third country. Under clause 21, a person subject to the clause 2 duty to make removal arrangements and who receives a positive Modern Slavery Reasonable Grounds decision will, subject to limited exceptions, be disqualified from...
Robert Jenrick: The guidance explains that the department will write to applicants when their application cannot be decided within service standard to explain why that is and what will happen next. Transparency Data published in May 2023 showed that 98.4% of straightforward applications are decided within the service standard. For those that are not, the applicant will receive a bespoke letter detailing next...
Robert Jenrick: Campsfield House immigration removal centre (IRC), in line with other IRCs, will hold a mixture of time-served foreign national offenders and immigration offenders while we prepare to remove them from the UK.
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office does not publish a record of those on student visas who overstayed. Our published data can be found in the available Migration Statistics on GOV.UK, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statist ics-year-ending-september-2022/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk- to-study
Robert Jenrick: As set out in the Home Secretary’s written statement made on 23 May 2023, the Government remains committed to bringing down net migration to sustainable levels. The immigration statistics highlighted an unexpected rise in the number of dependants coming to the UK alongside international students which the system was not intended for. We are therefore taking steps to remove the right for...
Robert Jenrick: The most recent Migration Transparency data published in May 2023 shows that 98.4% of straightforward applications were decided within six months. It is not always possible to conclude non-straightforward applications for citizenship within the published service standards. The Home Office actively monitors and reviews such cases on a regular basis, to ensure they can be progressed as soon as...
Robert Jenrick: The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.
Robert Jenrick: The Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) is levied on employers looking to bring in workers from overseas to the UK under the Points-Based System. The revenue raised from the ISC plays an important role in supporting the development of skills in the UK.
Robert Jenrick: We are taking immediate actions to speed up asylum processing whilst maintaining the integrity of the system. This includes simplifying guidance, reducing interview length and streamlining process. Streamlined Asylum Process plays an important role in achieving this.
