{"value":{"id":1521963,"askingMemberId":4253,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-10-13T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-10-17T00:00:00","uin":"62847","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she sill publish a breakdown of the cost to her Department of staffing and operating the walk-in surgery in the Portcullis House Customer Hub for Ukraine and passport cases in 2022.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4369,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-10-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Home Office is unable to provide the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office Portcullis House team dealt with over 30,000 enquiries and at its peak handled more than 1,000 enquiries per day.</p><p>The department wrote to all Members on 18 August 2022 to advise that a national programme of engagement events enabling MPs and their caseworkers to meet with Home Office officials nearer to their constituencies would replace the Portcullis House walk in service.</p><p>Urgent enquiries, including passport and Ukraine visa applications should be sent to the urgent inbox: mpurgentqueries@homeoffice.gov.uk.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Passports and Visas: Applications","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1521963","method":"GET"}]}