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1359178

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help religious minorities in Afghanistan access the Afghan citizens' resettlement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	56298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) will prioritise vulnerable people including ethnic and religious minorities, as well as those who have stood up for values such as democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan.</p><p>We will work with UNHCR and partners in the region to prioritise those in need of protection, such as ethnic, religious and other minority groups at risk.</p><p>Further information on the eligibility, prioritisation and referral of people for the ACRS is set out in the policy statement published on gov.uk on 13 September, available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/10/2021 17:08:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 27222 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1359262

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether the Christian community in Afghanistan requires refuge.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	56318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Whilst we have not made a specific assessment on the Christian community, all asylum and human rights claims, including those based on religion or belief, are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/10/2021 17:17:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 27217 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1359263

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people from religious minorities in Afghanistan who are able to resettle in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	56321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Through the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) the UK will relocate up to 20,000 people at risk. It will prioritise those who have stood up for values such as democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan, as well as vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities.</p><p>Further information on the eligibility, prioritisation and referral of people for the ACRS is set out in the policy statement published on gov.uk on 13 September, available at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fafghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement&amp;data=04%7C01%7CSian.Heeley%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C536c3955d52b434fa57008d994bb6676%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637704354854003996%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=QhT2B4JeSTM6g9uQEc3H11xytsdCRy%2BKGoKEyV55DNM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghanistan-resettlement-and-immigration-policy-statement</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/10/2021 17:11:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 27215 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1315745

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Jews: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure the safety of the British Jewish community during periods of heightened tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	2904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government is clear that any criminal activity, including the incitement of violence or racial hatred, is completely unacceptable. We have robust laws to tackle such criminal offences.</p><p>In April the Home Secretary committed to continuation of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant for 2021-22. This £14m funding supports the provision of security guarding and other measures at key community sites such as schools, colleges, nurseries and synagogues across the country.</p><p>We also routinely work with the Community Security Trust (CST) to understand and respond to the security needs of the Jewish community. This is in addition to the extensive efforts by the police to keep the Jewish and all our communities safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/05/2021 16:13:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1307608

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to encourage women in east London boroughs that have been sexually assaulted to report those incidents to the police.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	178885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>This Government is committed to ensuring that perpetrators of domestic abuse and violence against women and girls are brought to justice, and ensuring victims know where and how to access support.</p><p>In April last year we launched guidance on our.gov.uk website and delivered a successful #YouAreNotAlone awareness raising campaign to signpost victims to help and support services - reaching almost 30 million UK adults and securing over 130 million followers on social media.</p><p>This January, we also launched a new Ask for ANI Codeword scheme to enable domestic abuse victims to seek safe and discreet support from over 5000 participating pharmacies across the UK who will be able to provide victim focussed support, including engagement with specialist victim support services and the police as necessary</p><p>We know that rape and sexual assault are devastating crimes. We want all victims to have the confidence to report them, knowing that every investigation will be conducted thoroughly, and everything will be done to bring offenders to justice. That is why we commissioned an end-to-end review of the criminal justice system response to rape.</p><p>As indicated in my answer of 27 January, we expect the review to report with actions for cross-system improvement later this spring. We want to ensure the review, when published, is as well evidenced as possible, so that it delivers meaningful and long-lasting change.</p><p>Added to this, the government has committed new funding to support victims of rape and sexual abuse. The Ministry of Justice announced earlier this year victims of rape and domestic abuse will be helped by a major £40m funding boost for specialist support services. In addition, a further £11million funding was announced on 15 March to provide for more Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) to support victims through the criminal justice process.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/04/2021 16:23:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1191093

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Muslim Brotherhood
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of a potential increase in the activity of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK as a result of the economic downturn during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	41003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government keeps under review the activities of those associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK in accordance with the five commitments included in the former Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament.</p><p>The Government’s five commitments from the review are to:</p><ul><li>refuse visas to members and associates of the Muslim Brotherhood, in line with our existing policy guidelines and our approach to all forms of extremism;</li><li>seek to ensure charities that have links to the Muslim Brotherhood are not misused to support or finance the Muslim Brotherhood instead of their lawful charitable purpose;</li><li>strengthen liaison arrangements with international partners to ensure that allegations of illicit funding or other misuse of charities are robustly investigated and appropriate action taken;</li><li>enforce the EU asset freeze on Hamas; and</li><li>keep under review whether the views and activities of the Muslim Brotherhood meet the legal test for proscription.</li></ul><p>We have made no assessment on any increase in activity resulting from the economic situation.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/05/2020 16:21:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1173711

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have had their application for (a) leave to remain and (b) asylum refused but who remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	8177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>Information regarding the number of people who have had their;</p><p>(a) application for leave to remain refused, but who remain in the UK, can be found on tables PRE_MRP_01 of the Immigration Enforcement Transparency data, published 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2019:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a></p><p>(b) application for asylum refused, but who remain in the UK, can be found on tables OLCU_01, OLCU_04 and ASY_03 of the Asylum, UK Visa &amp; Immigration Transparency Data Q2 2019, published 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2019:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-august-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/02/2020 17:41:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1168815

registered interest
date	20/12/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Muslim Brotherhood
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to inform UK citizens of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The UK will continue to take concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood seriously. The Government informed UK citizens of the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in its comprehensive review, completed in December 2015 and published on gov.uk. The review concluded the movement is a secretive organisation and that parts of it – globally – have a highly ambiguous relationship with violent extremism.</p><p>The Government keeps under review the views promoted and activities undertaken by the Muslim Brotherhood<strong>’</strong>s associates in the UK in accordance with the five commitments included in the former Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament. The Government continues to stand by the judgments of the review, and we will continue to consider any new evidence on the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities against the UK’s legal thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 13/01/2020 17:35:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1166930

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps the Government has taken to tackle extremism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	6269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of extremism under its Counter-Extremism Strategy published in October 2015. The strategy sets out a programme of action to build our understanding of extremism, to challenge extremism and disrupt extremist activity and to strengthen communities and institutions so that they are better resist extremist narratives by building partnerships with all those opposed to extremism. On 19 July this year, the then Home Secretary announced that a new counter-extremism strategy would be developed for publication in 2020 when the current strategy comes to an end.</p><p>In March 2018 the Government established an independent Commission for Countering Extremism to support society to challenge all forms of extremism, to provide impartial advice to Government and to bring new drive and thinking to our efforts to tackle extremism. The Commission’s first report into extremism was published on 7 October this year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/11/2019 15:25:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1134931

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is (a) taking and (b) plans to take to help tackle the number of extreme lslamists operating on (a) Twitter and (b) other social media platforms.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	269681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. The UK has been at the forefront of the online battle against extremist and terrorist material.</p><p>The dedicated police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) refers content that they assess as contravening UK terrorism legislation to industry and have secured the removal of over 310,000 pieces of terrorist material since its inception in February 2010.</p><p>The UK Government was instrumental in setting up the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an industry-led forum, following the 2017 terrorist attacks. We continue to press for the GIFCT to lead a more robust and coordinated cross-industry response to reduce the availability of terrorist content on the internet.</p><p>We continue to work with technology companies, including Twitter, to encourage them to take further steps in tackling terrorist material on the Internet. While companies have taken positive steps, the Government has been clear that more needs to be done to tackle online harms, including extremist content. That is why the Government published the Online Harms White Paper, which sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and hold companies to account for tackling a wide range of online harms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/07/2019 15:25:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell