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date	02/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to counter activity from hostile states in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	240015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>We are living in a period where the UK and our international partners face sustained hostile activity from certain states, and the Government takes this threat to the country very seriously.</p><p><br>The Home Office has taken a number of steps to counter hostile state activity. For example, the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act, which gained Royal Assent on 12 February 2019, provides a new power to stop, question, search and detain an individual at a port or border area to determine whether they are, or have been, involved in hostile state activity.</p><p><br>In addition, the Home Office is currently leading a review of existing Coun-ter-Hostile State Activity legislation in the UK, to establish whether further legislation is required to strengthen our response to all forms of hostile state activity.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/04/2019 12:49:12 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

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date	15/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the consequences are for the security situation in the UK of the attack in Nice on 14 July 2016; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	42879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the Home Secretary’s statement which she delivered to Parliament on 18 July. The statement can be found here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-18/debates/16071818000002/TerroristAttackNice</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/07/2016 11:36:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West