Written questions

1,993 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Annex A of his Department's policy statement entitled Policy Statement: Windrush Scheme: Support in urgent and exceptional circumstances, published in December 2018, whether support

18 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Annex A of the Windrush Scheme: Support in urgent and exceptional circumstances policy statement, published 17 December 2018, what effect having previously been denied entry to the U

18 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form the review of the Windrush Scheme: Support in urgent and exceptional circumstances policy will take; how long it will take for those applying under the Windrush Compensation Scheme to receiv

18 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how (a) payments or assistance provided under the Windrush Scheme: support in urgent and exceptional circumstances policy may be taken into account in any subsequent claim under the Windrush Compensat

17 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to point six of the Windrush Scheme: Support in urgent and exceptional circumstances, what criteria his Department will use to assess a reasonable degree of evidence; and whether eviden

17 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the evidential basis for the decision that an application for the Windrush Scheme: Support in urgent and exceptional circumstances should not cost more than £5000.

17 Dec 2018 · Department for Education

Universities: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to encourage universities to tackle their BME and intersecting gender pay gaps.

17 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle far right extremism.

17 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Radicalism: Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of referrals of individuals suspected of far-right wing activity to Prevent.

12 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons he (a) planned to suspend the granting of Tier 1 Investor visas, (b) cancelled that suspension and (c) did not announce those decisions in written or oral statements to the House; and

12 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: Windrush Generation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral statement of 23 April 2018, Official Report, column 619, on Windrush, what progress his Department has made on setting up a new customer contact centre.

11 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Seasonal Workers Pilot in the agricultural sector, how much time will be provided to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority to develop a system for worker ove

11 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority on the seasonal workers pilot.

11 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to section 5 of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004, how the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority plans to license non-EU labour providers engaged in the seasonal workers pilot in th

11 Dec 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to his Department's paper entitled, Seasonal workers pilot: request for information, published in September 2018.

11 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the level of resources required by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority as a result of the introduction of the new seasonal workers pilot in the agricultural secto

6 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates his Department had meetings with representatives from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority on the Seasonal Workers Pilot in the agricultural sector.

6 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report, EU Settlement Scheme Private Beta 1, what assessment he has made of the reason for the nine people who had valid PR/ILR documentation not being granted settled status.

6 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report, EU Settlement Scheme Private Beta 1, published on 31 October 2018, what assessment he has made of the reasons why 12 per cent of applications were waiting for a decision

6 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Immigration: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Department for Exiting the European Union policy paper entitled Citizens’ Rights - EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU published on 6 December 2018, how the Governme

22 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the Tier 1 (general) visa applications refused under paragraph 322(5) of the immigration rules were refused on the basis of (a) criminality or threats to national security and (b) the appl

22 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will update the House when his Department has made a decision on the 19 cases for which it is seeking more information from applicants before reconsidering their cases, as set out in the Review

22 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to pay compensation to people who were wrongly refused Tier 1 general visas on the basis of rule 322(5) of the immigration rules; and if he will make a statement.

21 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information employers will be able to see through the digital portal through which they will be able to conduct right to work checks on EU citizens.

21 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date the digital portal through which employers will carry out digital right to work checks on EU citizens is planned to be rolled out.

21 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Bank Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations his Department has received from banks and banking bodies on the immigration checks that they will be required to carry out on EU citizens when the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

21 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations his Department has received from landlord bodies on the right to rent checks that they will be required to carry out on EU citizens when the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

21 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations his Department has received from employer bodies on the right to work checks that they will be required to carry out on EU citizens when the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether landlords will be required to distinguish between EU citizens who arrived in the UK (a) before March 2019 and (b) during the transition period between March 2019 and December 2020 to check a p

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

EU Nationals: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what right to rent checks landlords will be required to carry out on EU citizens during the period between March 2019 and December 2020 in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a

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