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Written questions

Afzal Khan

1,993 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that people who arrived in the UK under the Afghan (a) Relocation and Assistance Policy and (b) Citizens Resettlement Scheme

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department expects Afghan nationals who were in the UK before 2 September 2021 with limited leave under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy, including through the Afghan Locally Emplo

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what process her Department is using to upgrade the immigration status of Afghans who arrived in the UK and were granted six months leave to enter outside the rules but who are now eligible for Indefi

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the backlog of asylum claims is not affected by the change in situation in Afghanistan.

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department's updated country guidance on Afghanistan will be available for use in asylum claims from Afghan asylum seekers already in the UK.

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an assessment of the potential merits of expanding safe routes to claiming asylum in the UK, including accepting asylum claims at British embassies, High Commissi

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of suspending the requirement for biometrics for Afghan (a) nationals ineligible under Operation Pitting trying to join British ci

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Afghan nationals who were called forward or authorised for evacuation under the Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme who made their own way to the UK after being unable to board airlift flights

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to begin consultations with the UNHCR in order to facilitate the resettlement of Afghan refugees as part of the Afghan citizens' resettlement scheme.

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan nationals who were called forward or authorised for evacuation from Afghanistan but who were unable to board flights will be offered a place under the Afghan citizens' resettlement sch

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the Afghan nationals evacuated as part of Operation Pitting will be settled under the Afghan citizens' resettlement scheme.

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Afghanistan resettlement and immigration policy statement, published on 13 September 2021, what the UKVI's timeframe is for contacting recent arrivals as part of the

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Immigration: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Afghan nationals and their family members who arrived in the UK as part of Operation Pitting will receive notification of their indefinite leave to remain.

20 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) British nationals and (b) Afghan nationals were called forward or authorised for evacuation as part of Operation Pitting but did not evacuate Afghanistan.

20 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Pitting were (a) British nationals, (b) Afghan nationals evacuated as part of the Afghan Relocation and Assistanc

13 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kashmir: Politics and Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) implications for his policies of the Indian Government's recent lockdown on Kashmir after the death of activist, Syed Ali Shah Geelani

13 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of Uyghurs in Afghanistan; and what steps he is taking to help protect ethnic minorities in Afghanistan who are at risk of persecution

13 Sep 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Judges

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help protect Afghan female judges in hiding from the Taliban.

13 Sep 2021 · Prime Minister

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Prime Minister, what proportion of correspondence sent to him by hon. Members received a substantive response within the service standard in each month of (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.

8 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to provide a substantive response to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Manchester Gorton of 29 July 2021 regarding Mr Sharafat Ali.

12 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit have been wrongly detained while travelling into the UK since 1 July 2021.

12 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people travelling on an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit are able to enter the UK following the expiration of EEA Family Permits on 1 July 2021.

12 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking in response to reports that people traveling into the UK on an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit are being refused entry since 1 July 2021.

12 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Manchester Gorton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting lists for NHS dentists in Manchester, Gorton consistency.

12 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Manchester Gorton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) children and (b) adults on the waiting list for an NHS dentist in Manchester, Gorton consistency.

7 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to provide a substantive response to the correspondence from the hon. Member for Manchester Gorton of 23 June 2021 on Mr David Foulkes.

6 Jul 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kashmir: Riot Control Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of reports of the use of pellet guns on Kashmiri children; and if he will make representations to his Indian counterpart in response to those repo

6 Jul 2021 · Department for Transport

Travel Restrictions: Pakistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to review Pakistan's red list travel status under the Government's covid-19 travel restrictions.

5 Jul 2021 · Department for Education

Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the annual Summer Reading Challenge run by The Reading Agency in maintaining standards in reading; and what assessment his Department has made of the potentia

2 Jul 2021 · Home Office

Visas: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of former Apple Daily journalists in Hong Kong who qualify for the UK BNO visa scheme.

Source: official written-questions record.