Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether asylum claims made by male Iraqi Kurds have claimed to be in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region since 5 July 2024.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to ensure that organisations holding sponsor licences are recruiting from overseas in response to genuine labour shortages rather than as a primary business model.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what circumstances would trigger compliance action where a high proportion of a sponsor's workforce consists of sponsored workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department applies any operational threshold for the proportion of sponsored workers employed by a sponsor when assessing compliance risk.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used by UK Visas and Immigration to determine whether a sponsor licence holder should be subject to a compliance inspection.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what circumstances would normally lead to the suspension of a sponsor licence.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what circumstances would normally lead to the revocation of a sponsor licence.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the suitability of a sponsor licence holder that has previously had a licence revoked to sponsor workers in the future.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what processes are in place to verify that holders of Health and Care Worker Visas continue to work in the occupation for which their visas were granted.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what action is taken by her Department when a Health and Care Worker Visa holder ceases employment with their sponsoring employer.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Health and Care Worker Visas holders do not breach their visa conditions after leaving sponsored employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department conducts targeted compliance operations in sectors with large numbers of Health and Care Worker Visa holders.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment is made before granting a Student Visa of whether the applicant is a genuine student whose primary purpose is study.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compliance activity is undertaken in relation to Student Visa holders after their arrival in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes when a Student Visa holder ceases to attend the course for which leave was granted.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Student Visa holders leave the UK when they no longer qualify for leave under the student route.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department gives consideration to the educational outcomes of the institution sponsoring a student visa, prior to issuing visas.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department conducts a regular audit of the a) number and b) proportion of students attending educational institutions on student visas.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that educational institutions have a high threshold for English language ability when sponsoring student visas.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential compliance risks associated with the Religious Worker and Charity Worker routes.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional compliance measures apply to the Religious Worker and Charity Worker routes compared with other temporary work routes.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her department has had discussions with the Scottish Government concerning the draft Conversion Practices Bill.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's new story entitled PoliceAI to speed up investigations and fight crime, published on 10 June 2026, what mechanism exists to ensure that a tool shown by post-deployme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's new story entitled PoliceAI to speed up investigations and fight crime, published on 10 June 2026, whether PoliceAI plans to publish a public register of AI tools (a

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's new story entitled PoliceAI to speed up investigations and fight crime, published on 10 June 2026, whether she plans to place a legal duty on (a) the College of Poli