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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer on 28 October to Question 106945 on Immigration: Coronavirus, what further steps her Department has taken to widen the use of previously enrolled biometrics.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the merits of allowing biometric information submitted as part of a person’s previous immigration application to be reused in further applications.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to UKVI applicants with reusable biometric information, which applicants were (a) permitted to use the data and (b) prevented from utilising reusable biometric data.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that children who have passed through the Kent Intake Unit are appropriately supported and cared for.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that children arriving in Kent via migrant crossings are protected and cared for.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people who are unable to secure a National Insurance number as a result of the temporary suspension of services are able to access employment.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the decision to move the responsibility for age assessments to her Department and away from children's services.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been moved out of children's services into Home Office National Asylum Support Service accommodation while they are in the process of having an age assessment completed.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department plans to take to resolve highly skilled migrants’ cases where a (a) minded to refuse letter and (b) right of appeal given in relation indefinite leave to remain applications ...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of automatically issuing National Insurance numbers alongside the issuance of Hong Kong BNO visas.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Manchester Gorton dated 19 February 2020 on Mr Ignisious Gaisah.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 5 November 2020 to Question 109623, whether she has instructed her staff not to defend discontinuation notices in appeals to the Asylum Support Tribunal as a result of the Novemb...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the order of the High Court of 2 November 2020 directing her Department to continue to provide accommodation under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to former asylum-s...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the order of the High Court of 2 November directing her Department to continue to provide accommodation under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to former asylum-seeker...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an Equality Impact Assessment in relation to the decision to recommence evictions from asylum accommodation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 5 November 2020 to Question 109623 on Asylum: Coronavirus, which (a) other Government Departments and agencies and (b) local authorities she has consulted in her regular review o...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 5 November 2020 to Question 109623, whether Public Health England has advised her Department that the eviction of destitute former asylum seekers poses no threat to public health...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on people in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities of discontinuation letters being served to people living in asylum accommodation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the risk to health of evicting people from asylum accommodation during alert level 4 of the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will publish the evidence she used ...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many discontinuation letters have been issued to people living in asylum accommodation in (a) Manchester, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Liverpool since the outbreak of covid-19.