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46138

registered interest
date	31/03/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to regulate workers posted to the UK by companies.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	194553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Non-EEA nationals posted to the UK branch of their company are already <br>regulated under the Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) route, as set out in the <br>Immigration Rules. <br><br>Non-EEA nationals posted to the UK as contractual service suppliers under an <br>international trade agreement are regulated under the Tier 5 (International <br>Agreement) route.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

62340

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to change (a) the classification of external communications for the purposes of interception and (b) other aspects of UK surveillance law.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	201105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2014 answer text <p>External Communication is defined within the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 and the statutory Interception of Communications Code of Practice which was approved by Parliament and came into force on 1 July 2002. The Government has no present plans to amend the definition of external communication.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/08/2014 15:35:21 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 4323 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

62339

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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, whether she authorised the UK's classification of (a) Google, (b) Facebook, (c) webmail services and (d) other companies that operate in the UK as external communications.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	201104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>External Communication is defined within the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 and the statutory Interception of Communications Code of Practice which was approved by Parliament and came into force on 1 July 2002. The Government has no present plans to amend the definition of external communication.<br><br>Under RIPA, interception warrants are issued by the Secretary of State.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/09/2014 13:25:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 4322 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

89745

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State
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 prevent UK nationals joining IS.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	207525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>British citizens fighting with violent extremist groups committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq will clearly have the potential to pose a threat to the UK should they return. Such individuals are among our primary counter-terrorism concerns.<br><br>For those individuals who are at risk of radicalisation, agencies such as the police and local authorities work together to assess the nature and the extent of the risk and, where necessary, provide an appropriate support package tailored to individual needs. <br><br>We advise against all travel to Syria; anyone who does so is putting themselves in considerable danger. We have held community events in mosques and universities to dissuade people from travelling to Syria and to help Syrian people in other ways, emphasising that Syrians themselves have been clear that they do not want foreigners to come to their country. The best way for the public to help is to donate to orotherwise support UK registered charities that have ongoing relief operations.<br><br>Where an individual intends nonetheless to go to Syria, there are a number of tools at our disposal to disrupt travel. In some cases we can use the Royal Prerogative to withdraw passports. We also use powers to question people at borders to determine whether they are involved with terrorism. The Pre-Departure Checks Scheme is in place to identify those who pose a terrorist or terrorism-related threat and prevent them from flying to and from the UK. Where individuals have left the UK, we work with international partners to disrupt onward travel. <br><br>If there is evidence that people are going to Syria to engage in terrorist activity they can be arrested and prosecuted. Each case is considered individually; if the police refer a case to the Crown Prosecution Service, they consider whether there is sufficient evidence of any offence, and if so, whether it is in the public interest to prosecute.<br><br>As the Prime Minister announced in the House on 1 September, this Government is seeking to strengthen our ability to meet the unprecedented scale of this threat. The proposed new counter-terrorism powers include:<br><br>* Specific and targeted legislation to provide the police with a temporary power to seize a passport at the border, during which time they will be able to investigate the individual concerned.<br>* If there is any judgment that threatens the operation of our existing powers to revoke passports, introducing primary legislation immediately so that Parliament, not the courts, can determine whether it is right that we have this power.<br>* A targeted, discretionary power to allow us to exclude British nationals from the UK.<br>* Putting our long-standing arrangements on aviation security around the world on a statutory footing. Airlines will have to comply with our no fly list arrangements, give us information on passenger lists and comply with our security screening requirements.<br>* Putting our de-radicalisation programme, called Channel, on a statutory footing.<br>* New powers to add to our existing Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, including stronger locational constraints on suspects under TPIMs – either through enhanced use of Exclusion Zones, or through relocation powers. Anyone subject to our strengthened Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures will be required to engage with the PREVENT programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/09/2014 16:04:30 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 17842 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

89531

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Islamic State
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the threat to the UK posed by IS.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	207523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Home Office.</p><p /> <p>JTAC raised the threat level on 29 August from SUBSTANTIAL to SEVERE. That means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent. The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West. Some of those plots are likely to involve foreign fighters who have travelled there from the UK and Europe to take part in those conflicts.</p><p /> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 01/10/2014 13:26:39 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 17950 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

89532

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State
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 plans to take to address the threat of IS to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	207524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>JTAC raised the threat level on 29 August from SUBSTANTIAL to SEVERE. The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups, including ISIL, are planning attacks against the West. ISIL <br>is a clear national threat to the UK, as it is a global threat to our international partners and the region. We believe that more than 500 individuals from the UK have travelled to Syria since the start of the conflict. It is estimated half of these have returned. We judge that a significant minority of UK extremists currently fighting in Syria are affiliated with ISIL. British citizens fighting with proscribed terrorist organisations would clearly pose a threat to the UK should they return. Such <br>individuals are among our primary counter-terrorism concerns.<br><br>The Government is taking steps to counter this unprecedented threat. On Wednesday 26 November, we introduced the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, in order to extend the powers available to our law enforcement and intelligence <br>agencies. This Bill will ensure that we can: disrupt the ability of people to travel abroad to fight, as well as their ability to return here; enhance our ability to monitor and control the actions of those in the UK that pose a threat; and combat the underlying ideology that feeds, supports and sanctions terrorism. It includes provisions to:<br><br>The powers set out in the Bill are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face.<br><br>This legislation will provide additional tools to compliment work already underway to tackle the threat from ISIL under a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism led strategy. <br><br>We must take action at home – but we must also have a comprehensive strategy to defeat these extremists abroad. This involves using all the resources at our disposal – humanitarian efforts, which Britain is already leading, to help <br>those displaced by ISIL’s onslaught, and diplomatic efforts to engage the widest possible coalition of countries in the region as part of this international effort. At the UN, we are leading the process of condemning <br>ISIL, disrupting the flows of finance to ISIL and forging a global consensus about preventing the movement of foreign fighters.<br><br>This strategy also involves political efforts to support the creation of a new and genuinely inclusive government in Iraq and to bring about a transition of power in Syria that can lead to a new representative and accountable government <br>that can take the fight to ISIL.<br><br>We are determined to defeat the ideology of all forms of extremism, not just violent extremism. So we are banning preachers of hate, proscribing organisations that incite terrorism and stopping people from inciting hatred in <br>our schools, universities and even our prisons. For those individuals who are at risk of radicalisation, agencies such as the police and local authorities work together to assess the nature and the extent of the risk and, where <br>necessary, provide an appropriate support package tailored to individual needs. And we are working with industry to remove more extremist online material than ever before to protect those British young people vulnerable to becoming <br>radicalised. Since the start of this government, the Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit has secured the removal of 65,000 items from the internet that encouraged or glorified acts of terrorism. More than 46,000 of these have been <br>removed since December last year. At present, content relating to ISIL, Syria and Iraq represents around seventy per cent of the Unit’s caseload.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/12/2014 15:06:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

167102

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
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 information her Department holds on the professions of non-EU migrants who have entered the UK in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	216718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Those looking to work in the UK use Tiers 2 and 5 of the Points Based System route. A list of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) assigned by sponsors, by business <br>sector, has been placed in the Library of the House. This list provides details of the certificates that have been assigned and will not necessarily have leave granted in conjunction with that CoS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/12/2014 12:22:45 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 31675 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

171299

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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, how many (a) people and (b) children have been referred to the Channel anti-radicalisation programme since its inception; and how much that programme has cost to date.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	219167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>Since Channel was rolled out nationally in 2012, over 2000 people have been referred to the programme, and hundreds have been offered support. <br><br>For national security reasons, we do not publically provide the breakdown of police counter-terrorism spend by individual projects, capabilities, work streams or police force areas.<br><br>We continue to monitor and evaluate the Channel programme to ensure that it is as effective as it can be and that good practice is shared across the country. Placing the programme on a statutory footing will enshrine this good practice <br>in legislation to secure local cooperation and delivery in all areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 219168 question first answered 12/01/2015 14:03:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 36780 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

171305

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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, when her Department last conducted a review of the effectiveness of the Channel anti-radicalisation programme; and what form that review took.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	219168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>Since Channel was rolled out nationally in 2012, over 2000 people have been referred to the programme, and hundreds have been offered support. <br><br>For national security reasons, we do not publically provide the breakdown of police counter-terrorism spend by individual projects, capabilities, work streams or police force areas.<br><br>We continue to monitor and evaluate the Channel programme to ensure that it is as effective as it can be and that good practice is shared across the country. Placing the programme on a statutory footing will enshrine this good practice <br>in legislation to secure local cooperation and delivery in all areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 219167 question first answered 12/01/2015 14:03:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 36788 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

174780

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Seized Articles
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 firearms were confiscated by UK customs officials at border checks in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	221309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>This government is doing more than any previous government to disrupt organised crime and protect the security of the border. Border Force was split from the failing UK Border Agency in 2012 and re-established security as the priority. <br><br>Border Force adopts an intelligence-led approach to all of its customs activity, including searching for firearms, so that resources can be deployed as effectively as possible. This work is a key aspect of the Government’s <br>approach to tackling organised crime and countering terrorism. The National Crime Agency and Border Force work tirelessly to target the criminal groups behind smuggling.<br><br>The most up to date figures for the number of illegal firearms seized is as follows:<br><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Number of firearms seized (units)</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>283</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>463</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>197</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>83</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The numbers of firearms seized at the border fluctuates on a yearly basis. This can be attributed to a range of factors including the fact that organised crime groups regularly change which countries they seek to smuggle weapons into. Any <br>changes in the numbers of firearms seized at the border does not mean there has been a corresponding increase or decrease in the numbers that enter the UK after not being detected at the border.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/01/2015 14:47:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 39927 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham