Parliamentary Activity - Stephen Kinnock - Labour MP for Aberavon

EU Retained Law

Commons debates

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the British economy: they drive forward innovation and they create jobs, but they do not have huge departments to help them with the...

Asylum: Rwanda

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost is of the flight for asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda on 14 June 2022; and whether her Department has an obligation to pay...

Asylum

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the weekly Home Office targets for the number of (a) asylum claims to be processed, (b) Principal Stage decisions to be...

Asylum

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2022 to Question 8017 on Asylum, how long is the Foundation Programme and Mentoring Period for newly...

Refugees: Ukraine

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied minors are on the waiting list for (a) the Ukraine Family Scheme and (b) the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme; and how many...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is nice to know that his friend the Minister is helping him out, but the reality is that our inboxes are groaning with issues, failure and the...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He is referring to the two main companies, I think, which are TNT and Teleperformance. In both cases, the level of performance is abject. The question is: to...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

Is it not extraordinary that the Government’s response to the crisis we are seeing is to cut the civil service by 90,000 jobs? In what world is that going to work, when we clearly need more...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. The cost of this issue is not just in broken-hearted families who were not able to go on long-planned holidays, or to go to weddings and funerals; there is a...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend. What an utterly absurd position to be in that somebody who lives and works in London has to go to Belfast to get their passport processed. What kind of crazy, upside-down...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on getting those passports. I have to say that he was one of the lucky ones. The reality is that it was absolutely clear that at some point the travel...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

The right hon. Lady is absolutely right. There are holidays, weddings and funerals, but there are also direct impacts on people who have needed to go on work assignments abroad. There is the...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

On the causes of this, it is absolutely vital to recognise that the lack of investment in our public services is what has fundamentally left us exposed, and these are the problems we are facing...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. A Government who fail to plan are a Government who plan to fail, and that is what we have seen throughout this process. We have seen nothing but a Government...

HM Passport Office Backlog

Commons debates

I beg to move, That this House censures the Minister for Safe and Legal Migration, the hon. Member for Torbay, for his handling of the crisis at Her Majesty’s Passport Office; and directs...

Asylum

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the weekly Home Office targets for the number of (a) asylum claims to be processed, (b) Principal Stage decisions to be...

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the financial agreement between the UK and French governments to tackle small boats crossings in the English channel, what...

Asylum: Applications

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decision makers in her Department are working on processing the backlog of asylum applications.

HM Passport Office: Teleperformance

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were employed at the contractor Teleperformance to service the Passport Office contract in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and...

Passports: Applications

Stephen Kinnock received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings her Ministers had with the senior management of the Passport Office in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022 to discuss plans...