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1138919

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2019 to Question HL16344, whether he plans to include the appointment of the Independent Reviewer of Prevent in the Schedule to the Public Appointments Order in Council 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	277293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>Short term appointments of this nature are not usually included in the Schedule to the Public Appointments Order in Council. Best practice with regards to public appointments will be followed as outlined in the Cabinet Office Governance Code on Public Appointments 2016.</p><p>Bearing in mind the timescale set out in legislation, the role of Independent Reviewer of Prevent is not being advertised. The Home Secretary will make the appointment, and Ministers have been considering potential candidates for the role of Reviewer with a view to announcing the name of the Reviewer, along with the agreed Terms of Reference, to Parliament when a decision has been made.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 277294 question first answered 18/07/2019 15:31:46 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1137756

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Intelligence Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2019 to Question 268377 on Intelligence Services, what immediate and substantial mitigating actions were taken by MI5 to address the concerns raised.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	275118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>I cannot discuss the sensitive details of the mitigating actions that MI5 have undertaken, as doing so could cause significant damage to national security.</p><p>As the Home Secretary said in his Written Ministerial Statement of 9 May, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner is satisfied that they are sufficient for him to continue lawfully to approve decisions to issue warrants to MI5.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 18/07/2019 15:15:28 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1137427

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism: Germany
	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 make an assessment of the accuracy of recent reports that the extreme right-wing Nordkreuz network in Germany (a) compiled a death list of tens of thousands of individuals, including the recently murdered politician Walter Lubke, (b) stockpiled weapons and ammunition, and sought to procure materials to enable rapid disposal of bodies and (c) includes individuals within the German police and military, some of whom have made use of their access to Government data to identify targets for terrorist activity; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	274497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat from all forms of extremism seriously. We undertake a large number of assessments of the threat, including analysis of links between extremist groups overseas and those in the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 15/07/2019 12:28:01 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1136963

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism: Germany
	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 make an assessment of potential links between the Nordkreuz network in Germany and extremist groups in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	273358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat from all forms of extremism seriously. We undertake a large number of assessments of the threat, including analysis of links between extremist groups overseas and those in the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/07/2019 11:09:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1136362

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Science: Research
	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 bring forward legislative proposals to support human-relevant science.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	272219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>This Government promotes advances in biomedical science and technologies that include stem cell research, in vitro systems that mimic the function of human organs, imaging and new computer modelling techniques.</p><p>These advances are providing new opportunities to reduce reliance on the use of animals in research. Animals can only be used where there is no practicable alternatives and where the 3Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement) have been fully implemented. There are no plans to legislate for conducting human-relevant science.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 10/07/2019 15:51:23 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1135793

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies in relation to the definition of applicable crime in Part 3 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 of the finding of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Watson & Others that surveillance data retained for the purposes of fighting crime should be restricted solely to serious crime.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	271353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The retention of, and ability to access, communications data is an essential tool for intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The Government is committed to ensuring that our investigatory powers legislation is compliant with EU law.</p><p>The Government gave careful consideration to judgments by the European Court of Justice and the domestic Courts, implementing changes to UK law to ensure our communications data regime was compliant, while still ensuring our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have the powers they need to solve crimes, catch child sexual offenders and protect the public.</p><p>After consulting widely on our proposed changes and following scrutiny by both Houses of Parliament, the Government passed the Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations in October 2018 which introduced a serious crime threshold for acquiring events communications data.</p><p>In deciding on the definition of serious crime in the context of communications data, the Government fully considered the intrusiveness of the power.</p><p>This approach is consistent with EU case law, which states that the offence must be serious to justify a serious level of intrusion involved in accessing communications data. The Government’s approach reflects this level of intrusion. Events data is more intrusive than entity data and therefore a higher threshold must apply, but it is not as intrusive as interception powers, which can only be acquired if the definition of seriousness set out at section 263 of the Investigatory Powers Act is met. <br>The approach taken by the Regulations seeks to reflect the fact the level of intrusion will vary depending on the data sought and the circumstances of the case while also establishing a clear bar below which the acquisition of the more intrusive communications data is prohibited.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 15:46:19 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1135196

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Telecommunications: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of targeted automated phone scams reported in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	270395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold this data centrally. Information on recorded fraud levels can be downloaded and found in table A5 of the Office of National Statistics website, at the following address:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p>The particular breakdown of reported, targeted automated phone scams reported in 2018 may be recorded under other fraud headings.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/07/2019 16:15:30 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1132468

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to redraft the Higher Education Prevent Duty Guidance following the Court of Appeal’s verdict that paragraph 11 is unlawful; and if he will consult with organisations from the higher education sector on that redraft.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	265441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The Court of Appeal’s judgment that one paragraph in the Prevent Duty Guidance for Higher Education Institutions in England and Wales is unlawful (which applies correspondingly to the same or similar paragraphs in the Prevent Duty Guidance documents for higher education in Scotland, and for further education institutions in England and Wales, and in Scotland) does not affect the rest of the guidance documents, which should continue to be read as before.</p><p>The Government continues to consider its position regarding its next steps in relation to this judgment. Any redraft of the guidance documents will be made in consultation with the higher education sector, and in the meantime higher and further education institutions affected by the Prevent duty should refer to the court’s judgment, in particular paragraphs 158 to 177.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/07/2019 14:38:23 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden