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51 records in UK in 2020
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to extend the Action Access pilot scheme in response to the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the numbers of women participating in that scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any dispensation of relevant planning regulations has been (1) required, or (2) sought, for the proposed establishment of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers near Barton Stacey.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that security guards confiscated a Christmas meal donated by volunteers to the Penally asylum camp in Pembrokeshire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have died who were resident at Barry House in East Dulwich in the last 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December to Question 128332, what assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on her Department’s capacity in asylum operations intake units.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development on Returns or Readmissions Agreements for those deemed to be (a) irregular migrants, (b) refused asyl
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to relocate asylum seekers located at the Penally Camp to alternative accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's Immigration Rules, what the criteria is for assessing safe third countries for asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of reports of poor and unsafe living conditions for migrants in (a) Napier Barracks in Folkestone and (b) Penally Training Camp
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve conditions for migrants at (a) Napier Barracks in Folkestone and (b) Penally Training Camp in Pembrokeshire.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of opening the temporary Asylum Operations Regional Intake Unit in Cardiff.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contracts have been negotiated with CCGs in Hampshire on the provision of health care services to asylum seekers in supported accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers in (a) hotels and (b) other forms of accommodation for the financial year 2020-21; and how many asylum seekers have b
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on agencies sourcing the provision of hotel and other accommodation for asylum seekers in the financial year 2020-21; what the durations are of her Department's contr
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotel rooms her Department has procured for the placement of asylum seekers in each English region in (a) the financial year 2020-21 and (b) each of the previous five financial years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which body undertakes the inspection of the (a) quality and (b) safe provision of accommodation of asylum seekers; and what the frequency is of those inspections.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what most recent estimate she has made of the timescale for moving asylum seekers in Bristol from the hotel accommodation to which they were transferred back to appropriate accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on resettling refugee families under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme; and how many people she plans to settle under that scheme in the next 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to replace the EU's mechanisms for family reunification in relation to unaccompanied children.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking prior to the end of the transition period to ensure that international agreements are in place that would guarantee that an asylum applicant will be received in a t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish any reviews she has undertaken of covid-19 safety in contingency hotels and military barracks being used as asylum accommodation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking (a) nationally and (b) locally to monitor, prevent and mitigate the risk of Far Right activities at contingency hotels and military barracks being used for asylum accommodatio
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by which process the public can contribute to the statutory review and consultation on safe and legal routes for refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylums seekers have been waiting for a decision on their case for more than (a) six months and (b) twelve months within (i) Stockton Borough Council area and (ii) Tees Valley Combined Author
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of self-harm have occurred at (a) Penally training camp and (b) Napier barracks since September 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the scoping exercises which were used to assess the suitability of the Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire as a temporary accommodation site for asylum seekers in (a) 2015-2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Secretary of State for Defence on the suitability of the Penally training camp as a site for temporary accommodation for asylum seekers in (a) 2015-2016 and (b) 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum seekers (a) have been or (b) will be transferred to the temporary Penally accommodation site from areas in England under tiers 2 or 3 covid-19 restrictions at the time of their transfer
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential barriers to restarting the UK's refugee resettlement scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the UK's resettlement target in 2021 in response to the reduced number of refugees resettled in 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her international counterparts on increasing the global number of refugee resettlement places.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made alongside international counterparts to the UN Relief and Works Agency regarding its working definition of a refugee.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that asylum seekers can access covid-19 (a) home tests, (b) testing centres and (c) mobile testing facilities; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason an increasing number of asylum applicants are waiting longer for their claims to processed; and what steps she is taking to reduce the waiting time for applicants.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how medical practitioners with an outstanding asylum claim of 12 months or more have not been allowed to work in their profession in 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that medical practitioners seeking asylum whose claim is outstanding for 12 months or longer can work in their profession in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum decision makers left their jobs within the first 12 months of employment in the Asylum Operations Regional Asylum Intake Unit in Cardiff.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants have been transferred out of (a) Penally training camp and (b) Napier barracks, since September 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the official categorisation is of the temporary accommodation sites for asylum seekers at (a) Penally training camp in Pembrokeshire and (b) Napier barracks in Kent.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many work-in-progress asylum applications there are as of 10 December 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the process is by which the public can contribute to the statutory review and consultation on safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding she has allocated for a temporary asylum accommodation centre in Barton Stacey.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long she plans to use the proposed temporary asylum accommodation centre in Barton Stacey.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what lessons her Department has learned from the use of Napier and Penally barracks as temporary asylum accommodation centres.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what health care services will be provided on site at future temporary asylum accommodation centres established by her Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on clinically extremely vulnerable asylum seekers under his jurisdiction accessing covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum decision maker posts are currently vacant.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral Answer of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of 18 November 2020, Official Report, column 198WH, on the Government’s reasons for restricting permission to work for asylum seekers,
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 22 July (HL Deb, col 2294) and the “pledge to resettle a further 5,000 vulnerable people seeking refuge, from not just Syria but anywhere in the world”, when they
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with local authorities about the commencement of their new, consolidated, global resettlement scheme and the resettlement of 5,000 refugees in one year at the conclusion of the Vulnerable Pers