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1345245

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle the domestic operations of Hezbollah since its full proscription in February 2019.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	29746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Since the extension of Hizballah’s proscription in 2019, the Government has also extended the UK’s domestic financial sanctions designation to cover the group in its entirety.</p><p> </p><p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations, or individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations, are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. It would not be appropriate to comment or publish data on these matters.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences.</p><p>The Home and Foreign Secretaries routinely discuss global counter-terrorism matters, both bilaterally and at Cabinet during meetings of the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 29747 29748 29749 29750 question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1345246

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of UK citizens who are members of Hezbollah.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	29747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Since the extension of Hizballah’s proscription in 2019, the Government has also extended the UK’s domestic financial sanctions designation to cover the group in its entirety.</p><p> </p><p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations, or individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations, are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. It would not be appropriate to comment or publish data on these matters.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences.</p><p>The Home and Foreign Secretaries routinely discuss global counter-terrorism matters, both bilaterally and at Cabinet during meetings of the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 29746 29748 29749 29750 question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1345247

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah: Islamic Resistance Support Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the relationship between Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance Support Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	29748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Since the extension of Hizballah’s proscription in 2019, the Government has also extended the UK’s domestic financial sanctions designation to cover the group in its entirety.</p><p> </p><p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations, or individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations, are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. It would not be appropriate to comment or publish data on these matters.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences.</p><p>The Home and Foreign Secretaries routinely discuss global counter-terrorism matters, both bilaterally and at Cabinet during meetings of the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 29746 29747 29749 29750 question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1345248

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle sources of financial assistance to Hezbollah in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	29749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Since the extension of Hizballah’s proscription in 2019, the Government has also extended the UK’s domestic financial sanctions designation to cover the group in its entirety.</p><p> </p><p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations, or individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations, are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. It would not be appropriate to comment or publish data on these matters.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences.</p><p>The Home and Foreign Secretaries routinely discuss global counter-terrorism matters, both bilaterally and at Cabinet during meetings of the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 29746 29747 29748 29750 question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1345250

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah: Lebanon
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 the Foreign Secretary on tackling Hezbollah activity in Lebanon.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	29750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Since the extension of Hizballah’s proscription in 2019, the Government has also extended the UK’s domestic financial sanctions designation to cover the group in its entirety.</p><p> </p><p>Investigations into the activities of proscribed organisations, or individuals who may be members or supporters of proscribed organisations, are an operational matter for the police and intelligence agencies. It would not be appropriate to comment or publish data on these matters.</p><p>The Government publishes quarterly national statistics on the use of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent relevant legislation in Great Britain. This includes information on arrests, charges and convictions for proscription offences.</p><p>The Home and Foreign Secretaries routinely discuss global counter-terrorism matters, both bilaterally and at Cabinet during meetings of the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 29746 29747 29748 29749 question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1345387

registered interest
date	08/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Relatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of potential sponsors who have left the UK since 2013 as a result of close relatives not being able to join them under the Adult Dependency visa rule.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	29879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to make such an estimate as the Home Office does not record the reason why individuals leave the UK.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2021 16:45:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1343578

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel: Quarantine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many self-isolation home visits took place in June 2021 for travellers returning from amber list countries under covid-19 travel restrictions.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	27142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the month of June, the service conducted up to 10,000 checks per day on non-exempt amber list arrivals.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2021 16:49:46 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1343579

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to include housing availability in the development of immigration policy.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	27121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes Impact Assessments which analyse the impacts of migration policy changes, including quantified and unquantified costs and benefits.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2021 14:57:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1343580

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travellers returned from amber list countries in June 2021.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	27143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office regularly publishes migration statistics, including the number of daily air passenger arrivals to the UK on gov.uk. The latest publication covers up to the end of April 2021 and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-q1-2021" target="_blank">Border Force transparency data: Q1 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2021 16:47:56 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1343742

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Frontier Workers: Defence and Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to grant frontier worker status to people (a) presently working in the UK, (b) who can prove a previous employment history at a UK employer and (c) who will be working on strategically important projects in the UK defence and infrastructure sectors.
tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
uin	27135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Citizens’ Rights Agreements protect those EU, EEA and Swiss citizens who were frontier workers in the UK by the end of the transition period at 11pm on 31 December 2020 and who continue to be so.</p><p>The UK’s frontier worker permit scheme, which has been open to applications since 10 December 2020, allows those protected frontier workers to obtain a permit, free of charge, as evidence of their right to continue entering the UK as a frontier worker after 30 June 2021.</p><p>There is no deadline by which protected frontier workers must apply for a permit, though it has been mandatory for non-Irish frontier workers to hold a frontier worker permit to enter the UK for work from 1 July 2021.</p><p>Where an overseas worker is not protected by the Citizens’ Rights Agreements, the new points-based immigration system provides routes for skilled workers and specialist services suppliers. Such work visas are typically issued within three weeks, making the UK system one of the fastest visa services in the world.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/07/2021 15:00:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti