To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the immigration and nationality directorate will reply to the letter of 18 January from the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, on behalf of Andrew Russell, of Park Lane, Birmingham (Home Office Reference R1050090, correspondence ref. B1755/5). (29145)

The immigration and nationality directorate wrote to my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood on 6 April 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he will answer the letter of 8 May from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs. S. Khan; (77587)

I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 27 July 2006.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Parliamentary Business Unit of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will reply to the hon. Member for Edinburgh West's fax of 5 May regarding Ali Baker Zerar. (80374)

Officials advise me that they have been unable to trace the fax sent from the hon. Member for Edinburgh West's office on 5 May. However, they are in contact with the hon. Member's office to take this matter forward.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to provide a substantive reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Sunderland, South of 4 April regarding Mr. Joseph Dede Omanga (HO 01066013). (82974)

The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Andy Burnham) wrote separately to my hon. Friend regarding Mr. Joseph Dede Omanga on 27 April 2006. It is expected that a substantive response to these representations will be provided by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate within the next few weeks.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will reply to the letters from the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood of 10 April 2006 (acknowledgement reference B9696/6) and 24 May 2006 on behalf of Mulukjan Begum (Home Office reference M1273553). (83365)

The Immigration and Nationality Directorate wrote to the hon. Member for Ladywood on 6 July 2006.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will answer the letter dated 6 June 2006, from the hon. Member for Peterborough, concerning the immigration status of Wakil Sahebzadeh; and if he will make a statement. (84940)

[holding answer 14 July 2006]: I wrote to the hon. Member on 14 July.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letter to him dated 22 May from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Emmanuel Yawe Dzisi. (88195)

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary wrote to the hon. Member on 2 August 2006.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will provide a substantive reply to the letter of 5 July 2006, on behalf of his constituent Mrs. Martha Patricia Vargas, of St. George's Road, Cheltenham (Home Office reference V2037814) regarding the refusal of her application for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. (88250)

[holding answer 24 July 2006]: The IND replied to the hon. Member for Cheltenham on 29 August 2006.