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780550

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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, what steps she has put in place to ensure that groups run by people supporting extremist views are excluded from working with public sector institutions covered by the Prevent strategy, including the police.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	110367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The statutory Prevent duty places responsibility on certain public sector bodies to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’ in the exercise of their functions.</p><p>Supporting statutory guidance sets out expectations for relevant public sectors including that organisations they work with are not engaged in extremist activity or espouse extremist views; public resources are not utilised by extremists; extremist views are appropriately challenged; and where appropriate, extremists are lawfully prosecuted, disrupted and deterred. Sector specific advice, training and support continues to be provided by the Home Office and other departments to support proportionate Prevent delivery.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 110455 question first answered 07/11/2017 15:05:40 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

780551

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Surveys
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 30 October 2017 to Question 109740, on Cybercrime: surveys, how much has been paid from the public purse to IPSOS Mori for running the National Crime Security Tracker survey.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>IPSOS MORI has been paid £373,800 to run the National Cyber Security Tracker since 2015. IPSOS MORI were procured to provide this service through a competitive tender process administered by the Government’s Crown Commercial Service.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/11/2017 14:09:08 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

780554

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tapan Ghosh
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of using an exclusion order on Mr Tapan Ghosh, prior to his arrival to the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	110313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>It is Home Office policy not to comment on whether an individual is being assessed for a potential exclusion order.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2017 17:04:17 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

780555

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tapan Ghosh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Extremism Analysis Unit conducted research into the views of Mr Tapan Ghosh prior to his arrival to the UK in October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	110314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>It is Home Office policy not to comment on whether an individual is being assessed for a potential exclusion order.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2017 17:04:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

780557

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Investigatory Powers Act 2016
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for publication of her Department's response to the consultation on the Investigatory Powers Act Codes of Practice; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	110324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Public consultation on five codes of practice issued under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 took place over a six week period earlier this year, ending on 6 April.</p><p> </p><p>As with the unprecedented levels of scrutiny the Act itself received during its passage through Parliament, the statutory consultation played a vital role in the development of these codes of practice, and the Government is grateful to those who took the time to respond to the consultation. The codes provide information and guidance to those public authorities able to exercise powers under the Investigatory Powers Act, and will ensure the powers are used in the intended manner.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s response to the consultation and the regulations bringing these codes into force will be laid before Parliament in due course. They will then be subject to scrutiny by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, and will then be debated in Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2017 16:29:23 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

780561

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been victims of identity theft in each of the past five years; and what steps she is taking to reduce the prevalence of identity theft.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office do not hold the information requested. The use of another person’s identification details (or the use of false identification details), often referred to identity theft, is not itself an offence in law.</p><p> </p><p>Most instances of ‘Identity Theft’ come to light when victims’ details are used fraudulently to obtain goods, services or money using credit arrangements or loans. Figures on these offences are collated by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics in the bulletin Crime in England and Wales in Table A5: The latest available data can be found in table A5:</p><p> </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> </p><p>The Government is concerned about the harms caused by crimes enabled by the theft of an identity and is taking a number of steps to counter identity-based crimes:</p><ul><li>Action Fraud, the Government-supported fraud reporting centre, provides advice for individuals and businesses on steps they can take to protect themselves from identity crime;</li><li>Action Fraud is also engaged in a number of public campaigns to raise awareness of the risk of identity theft across the public and private sectors to both individuals and businesses;</li><li>The Government is using the Joint Fraud Taskforce to bring banks and law enforcement together to work collectively to protect the public and businesses from fraud;</li><li>And the Government is also committed to extending the Verify platform so that people have one single, common and safe way of verifying themselves online to all parts of government by 2020 and making it more widely available, so that people can safely verify their identity to access non-government services such as banking.</li></ul> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 06/11/2017 17:30:58 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

780564

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Internet
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 tackle online jihadi terrorist propaganda as a means of radicalisation.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	110378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. The UK has been at the forefront of the online battle against terrorist and extremist material.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with industry, including through the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, to encourage them to develop innovative solutions to tackle online radicalisation.</p><p> </p><p>The dedicated police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) refers content that they assess as contravening UK terrorism legislation to industry and have secured the removal of over 290,000 pieces of terrorist-related material, including propaganda, since its inception in February 2010.</p><p> </p><p>RICU work with a range of civil society groups to counter extremist and terrorist ideologies and to equip people in communities with the ability to reject those narratives.</p><p> </p><p>We also want to address misuse of the internet by individuals: for that reason the Home Secretary announced at the Conservative Party Conference recently that the government will seek to change the law, so that people who repeatedly view terrorist content online could face up to fifteen years behind bars.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 06/11/2017 17:32:02 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

780569

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
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 programmes similar to Operation Constrain in other countries; what discussions she has had with her counterparts in other countries on managing the return of Daesh fighters to their countries; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	110210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to doing everything possible to protect our communities from the threat of terrorism. To respond to this threat, it is vital that we use all the means at our collective disposal to divert people away from terrorist activity, and we are exploring the best ways of doing this with our partners.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is evidence someone has committed an offence they will be prosecuted accordingly. This is a decision for the Crown Prosecution Service. An increase in the number of people facing charges does not affect the threshold for prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>We are a reviewing our counter terrorism strategy to make sure we respond to the evolving threat in the most effective way we can, both now and in the future. We engage closely with counter terrorism partners across the world, including sharing capabilities and experience in order to keep the public safe.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 110211 110212 110213 110228 question first answered 02/11/2017 16:28:20 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

780570

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people returning from Syria and Iraq who fall within the scope of Operation Constrain are permitted to return to the communities in the UK which they left to travel to the Middle East.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	110211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to doing everything possible to protect our communities from the threat of terrorism. To respond to this threat, it is vital that we use all the means at our collective disposal to divert people away from terrorist activity, and we are exploring the best ways of doing this with our partners.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is evidence someone has committed an offence they will be prosecuted accordingly. This is a decision for the Crown Prosecution Service. An increase in the number of people facing charges does not affect the threshold for prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>We are a reviewing our counter terrorism strategy to make sure we respond to the evolving threat in the most effective way we can, both now and in the future. We engage closely with counter terrorism partners across the world, including sharing capabilities and experience in order to keep the public safe.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 110210 110212 110213 110228 question first answered 02/11/2017 16:28:20 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

780571

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget is for Operation Constrain.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	110212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to doing everything possible to protect our communities from the threat of terrorism. To respond to this threat, it is vital that we use all the means at our collective disposal to divert people away from terrorist activity, and we are exploring the best ways of doing this with our partners.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is evidence someone has committed an offence they will be prosecuted accordingly. This is a decision for the Crown Prosecution Service. An increase in the number of people facing charges does not affect the threshold for prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>We are a reviewing our counter terrorism strategy to make sure we respond to the evolving threat in the most effective way we can, both now and in the future. We engage closely with counter terrorism partners across the world, including sharing capabilities and experience in order to keep the public safe.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 110210 110211 110213 110228 question first answered 02/11/2017 16:28:20 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney