Sarah Pochin MP: written questions
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Written questions
Asylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the highest number of further submissions was for an asylum application in last ten years.
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest recorded duration is for an asylum application to remain in the further submissions process without conclusion.
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: OffendersHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular mirgrants (a) have been convicted of criminal offences and (b) were awaiting sentencing on 3 June 2025.
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have absconded while their asylum applications were being considered in the last 10 years.
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken Watchlist and Information Control Unit checks on all asylum applications in the last 10 years.
Answer: When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic an...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: VettingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57125More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police National Computer checks have been carried out on all asylum applicants in the last 10 years.
Answer: When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic an...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what background checks her Department conducts on irregular migrants applying for asylum.
Answer: When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic an...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Legal Aid SchemeHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57123More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants who have (a) been refused asylum and (b) are at the further submissions stage were in receipt of legal aid on 3 June 2025; and what the total cost was for the provision of
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: HousingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants who have (a) been refused asylum and (b) are undergoing the further submissions process were living in accommodation paid for by her Department on 3 June 2025; and what the
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Sick LeaveHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the staff sickness rate for Asylum Decision Makers employed by the Home Office was (a) on 3 June 2025 and (b) in each of the last five years.
Answer: Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year. ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Labour TurnoverHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57120More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Asylum Decision Makers left their role after (a) three, (b) six and (c) nine months in post.
Answer: Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year. ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57119More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Asylum Decision Makers employed by the Home Office on 3 June 2025 had not completed the full training programme required for their role.
Answer: Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year. ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHome Office: TrainingHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the standard training period is for Asylum Decision Makers employed by her Department; and whether this period has changed in the last 10 years.
Answer: Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year. ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of considering asylum applications at the further submissions stage in each of the last five years.
Answer: I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold w...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have reached the further submissions stage and have been under consideration at that stage for (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months, (d) 12 months, (e) 18 mon
Answer: The Cabinet Office's Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: "There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproport...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: CheshireHome OfficeTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57115More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are housed in hotels in (a) Runcorn and Helsby constituency and (b) Cheshire county.
Answer: The requested data is not available at constituency level, but data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, broken down by local authority, is routinely published within the Asy_D11 tab of our regular immigration syst...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
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