Written answers

Friday, 30 December 2022

  • Home Office

    • Human Trafficking: Prosecutions

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2022 to Question 18775 on Human Trafficking: Prosecutions, how many people have been successfully...

    • Asylum: Applications

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's objectives are for the timeframe in which to accept, investigate and come to a final adjudication on asylum applications.

      Asylum: El Salvador

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of the introduction in May 2022 of a visa requirement for all travel from El Salvador to...

      Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the daily per person rate of funding provided to Luton Borough Council to support asylum seekers housed in (a) dispersed...

      Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the daily per person rate of funding provided to local authorities to support asylum seekers housed in (a) dispersed accommodation,...

      Asylum: Slough

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who were placed in hotels in Slough absconded from their accommodation during 2022.

      Asylum: Southampton Itchen

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overnight stays in Southampton Itchen have asylum seekers spent in (a) dispersed accommodation, (b) overflow dispersed...

      Asylum: Southampton

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the number of asylum seekers the Dolphin Hotel in Southampton has housed since it began providing...

      Asylum: Southampton Itchen

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of how long hotels will be used to temporarily house asylum seekers in Southampton, Itchen...

      Asylum: Hotels

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has budgeted for the provision of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers per person for the next 12 months.

      Asylum: Hotels

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has made support available for hotel employees who have potentially lost their employment due to hotels being used as...

      Asylum: Hotels

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an economic impact assessment of housing asylum seekers at local hotels on (a) the local economy and (b)...

      Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy to give initial asylum decisions to applicants whilst they are housed in contingency hotels or...

  • Department for Education

    • Overseas Students: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on supporting Ukrainian students studying full-time at Ukrainian institutions remotely...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Somalia: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Somalia National Army soldiers are due to be trained by UK armed forces in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

    • China: Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his Chinese counterpart on ending the practice of organ harvesting of prisoners...

      Colombia: Females and LGBT+ People

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has held discussions with his counterpart in Columbia on harassment of women and LGBTIQ+ people during...

      Palestinians: Terrorism

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Palestinian Authority on the payment of salaries to Palestinians...

      Nizar Banat

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022, Official Report, 97558, what recent discussions he has had with the...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Nurses: Migrant Workers

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overseas nurses were working in (a) the NHS and (b) each NHS England Hospital Trust in each year since 2015; and whether he has...

    • Surgical Mesh Implants

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to undertake a retrospective audit of mesh as called for in Baronness Cumberlege's First Do No Harm, The report...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • Home Office

    • British Nationality: Assessments

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the Life in the UK test.

    • Asylum: Applications

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that those newly appointed as Asylum Decision Makers are adequately trained in order to achieve fair outcomes.

      Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee: Disclosure of Information

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 6 December (HL Deb cols 85 and 88), what factors they will consider in deciding whether to publish the...

      Asylum

      To ask His Majesty's Government how they determine whether asylum seekers who arrive in the UK without documentation are genuinely from a country not on their list of safe countries.

      EU Countries: Refugees

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to support (1) the EU, and (2) countries on the Mediterranean coast, with refugees in that region; and what plans they...

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Democratic Republic of Congo: Mining

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of testimony by Hervé Diakiese Kyungu to a US Congressional hearing on 14 July that 40,000 children, some as young as six years...

    • Haiti: Humanitarian Situation

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Haiti, including reports of hunger and acute food insecurity in the Cité Soleil...

      Sudan: Democracy

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the latest agreement between the Army and civilian organisations in Sudan, and (2) whether this agreement will support the...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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