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	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the research of counter UAV technology is coordinated across Government departments.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	109222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2020 answer text <p>Those engaged in work to counter the treat from drones, consists of a variety of departments including the Department for Transport, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy amongst others co-ordinated by the Home Office.</p><p>Science and Technology teams within this cross-government community work collaboratively to ensure the best use of resource and collaborative problem solving. This collaboration is facilitated by an established governance system of Senior and working level boards and working groups. These strong working relationships have enabled the community to test existing and help develop future counter UAV technology and support industry to better meet the UK’s security needs.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/11/2020 18:25:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

1247612

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Unmanned Air Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are resourced contingency plans to counter the threat of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by terrorist groups within the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	109220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office and Police are working jointly to build a new national counter-drones capability, which will give the police the technology, resource and training required to effectively tackle the illegal use of drones.</p><p>There is no single means of protecting the UK from malicious drones use, which is why the Home Office, via the UK Counter-unmanned Aircraft Strategy has committed to developing a layered approach to counter malicious drone use. This layered approach includes: improved public understanding of safe drone operation; requiring drones over a certain size to be registered; requiring commercial drone pilots to be licenced, with full risk assessments in place for any companies operating commercial drones.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/11/2020 18:20:32 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

1247259

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Barbecues: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fires were caused by disposable barbeques in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	109639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes figures on accidental fires started by barbecues in table FIRE0605, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#cause-of-fire" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#cause-of-fire</a></p><p>The figures relate to accidental fires started by all types of barbecues as the Home Office does not specifically collect data on disposable barbecues.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/11/2020 17:02:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard