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686181

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Exclusion Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been barred from entering the UK for having engaged in unacceptable behaviour in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	63395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The number of Unacceptable Behaviour exclusions is published in the Contest counter-terrorism strategy annual report.</p><p>The figures for 2013, 2014 and 2015 are as follows:</p><p>2013 – 14</p><p>2014 – 15</p><p>2015 – 16</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/02/2017 14:34:32 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

732872

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the security of pedestrianised areas in York against (a) terrorist and (b) vehicle-borne terrorist attack.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	1268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>It would not be appropriate to comment on specific security activities and arrangements at a particular location. However, the police undertake appropriate policing deployments utilising the full range of assets available to them, including armed officers and other specialist capabilities, to protect and reassure the public across the UK including in city centres. These deployments are designed against the current national threat level of SEVERE, which means that an attack is highly likely, and consider a range of attack methodologies including vehicle as a weapon attacks.</p><p>Furthermore, under the Government’s counter terrorism strategy CONTEST we have ensured that businesses and local authorities have access to high-quality advice and guidance, provided by the police and others, so they know what steps to take to reduce vulnerability to, and prepare for, terrorist attack. Public vigilance, the work of the police, and of the security and intelligence agencies all contribute to make crowded places safer. I am determined that the CONTEST strategy is applied throughout the whole of the UK and not just the bigger cities.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/07/2017 14:58:31 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

732873

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to evaluate the effectiveness of Prevent Strategy training.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	1269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has developed a dual approach to assessing the effectiveness of initiatives funded by the Prevent strategy. It is based on comprehensive monitoring systems which track outcomes over time and robust evaluation techniques that assess effectiveness.</p><p>Over 850,000 frontline staff have received training on spotting signs of radicalisation and feedback from those who have attended WRAP training shows that 90% of attendees rated their understanding of how people can be influenced or radicalised as “good” or “excellent” following the training.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/07/2017 11:43:00 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

732874

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Security: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional funding she is providing for the erection of barriers to protect buildings and other places where people congregate in cities.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	1270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force area or by capability.</p><p>Overall this Government has protected counter-terrorism police spend in real terms over the Spending Review period, and invested in counter-terrorism policing to grow key capabilities, including providing £144m to increase armed policing capability. We remain committed to increasing cross-government spending on counter-terrorism by 30%, from £11.7 billion to £15.1 billion, including funding an additional 1,900 officers at our security and intelligence agencies. The Government has a constructive dialogue with policing to ensure that the right powers, capabilities and resources are in place.</p><p>Within the contest strategy one of the main pillars is to protect and prepare the country for an attack when it happens. Bespoke advice and guidance on protective security is provided to businesses and local authorities responsible for crowded places by specialist Counter-Terrorism Security Advisors (CTSAs) who operate in every police region. All police forces also have access to the National Barrier Asset, which is made up of a range of temporary Hostile Vehicle Mitigation equipment, security fences and gates that enable temporary physical protection of sites.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/07/2017 15:00:37 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

732875

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on planning to prevent terrorist acts in their communities.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	1271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>We work in partnership with local authorities to build resilience in communities, to tackle the influences of radicalisation, and respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism.</p><p>We work to protect all communities and help them to prevent terrorist attacks. Following recent incidents, particularly Finsbury Park, the police have been engaging with their local faith communities to provide advice and reassurance and have reviewed their policing plans.</p><p>Under the Government’s counter terrorism strategy CONTEST, work takes place to improve protective security and preparedness at crowded places by ensuring businesses and local authorities have access to high quality protective security advice. Advice for businesses is provided by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO), and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI).</p><p>NaCTSO have published sector specific protective security advice and guidance for owners and operators of crowded places sites including places of worship, to allow them to identify key risks and consider what steps to take. The advice and guidance is provided independent of threat level, and is designed to be appropriate and proportionate, and wherever possible cost-effective.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/07/2017 11:45:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

774066

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what type of intelligence is held by officials when her Department reports that the perpetrators of terrorist acts are known to the authorities.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	108683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>It is the longstanding policy of the British Government not to comment on intelligence matters.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/10/2017 16:03:13 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1088237

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Airports: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on the mutual recognition approach to airport staff screening as discussed at the Transatlantic Aviation Security Industry Roundtable in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
	tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
	uin	232005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Transatlantic Aviation Security Industry Roundtable was convened to further strengthen dialogue between the US and UK on enhancing aviation security and alongside other issues discussed measures to mitigate the Insider threat and staff screening</p><p>The UK has consistently advocated, in the International Civil Aviation Organization and in other forums, a global approach to tackling insider threat at airports based on 100% screening of staff, randomness and unpredictability as part of that screening, and background checks of staff working in secure areas or with access to sensitive security information.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/03/2019 15:35:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier

1063964

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal combatants returning from conflicts abroad have been prosecuted in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	223136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Approximately 40 individuals have been prosecuted on their return from Syria, either because of offences committed overseas or for activity linked to their involvement in conflict overseas. The offences cover TACT offences and non-TACT offences, but are only included if they were the result of investigations into terrorist-related activity. Not all of the convictions relate to activity in Syria or even TACT offences. All 40 were found guilty of the offences they were charged with.</p><p>We do not comment on specific operational matters in order to protect our national security so as not to reveal operational tactics. It would therefore be inappropriate to break down these figures further or to release information about the specific cases involved.</p><p>Please note that the safety and security of our country, our people and our communities remains the Government’s number one priority.</p><p>Around 900 people of national security concern travelled from the UK to engage in the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Of these, approximately 20% have been killed while overseas, and around 40% have returned to the UK.</p><p>The majority of those who have returned, did so in the earlier stages of the conflict, and were investigated on their return. A significant proportion of these individuals are assessed as no longer being of national security concern.</p><p>Everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq must expect to be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences, and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to our national security.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 223138 question first answered 25/02/2019 16:51:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1063966

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list the offences with which each returning ISIS combatant, who has been prosecuted, has been charged with in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	223138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Approximately 40 individuals have been prosecuted on their return from Syria, either because of offences committed overseas or for activity linked to their involvement in conflict overseas. The offences cover TACT offences and non-TACT offences, but are only included if they were the result of investigations into terrorist-related activity. Not all of the convictions relate to activity in Syria or even TACT offences. All 40 were found guilty of the offences they were charged with.</p><p>We do not comment on specific operational matters in order to protect our national security so as not to reveal operational tactics. It would therefore be inappropriate to break down these figures further or to release information about the specific cases involved.</p><p>Please note that the safety and security of our country, our people and our communities remains the Government’s number one priority.</p><p>Around 900 people of national security concern travelled from the UK to engage in the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Of these, approximately 20% have been killed while overseas, and around 40% have returned to the UK.</p><p>The majority of those who have returned, did so in the earlier stages of the conflict, and were investigated on their return. A significant proportion of these individuals are assessed as no longer being of national security concern.</p><p>Everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq must expect to be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences, and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to our national security.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 223136 question first answered 25/02/2019 16:51:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

760917

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of British citizens who have left the UK to join ISIS and who have (a) returned home and (b) been prevented from returning home.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	105351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Approximately 850 UK linked individuals of national security concern have travelled to engage with the Syrian conflict. We estimate that just under half have returned and approximately 15% are now dead. This number includes all those of national security concern, not just those affiliated with Daesh.</p><p>Everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq must expect to be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences, and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to our national security.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/10/2017 15:12:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds