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1699953

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Travel Authorisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to update the impact assessment for Electronic Travel Authorisation to include airside transit passengers.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	20970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Electronic Travel Authorisations deliver important security benefits. A blanket exemption to the ETA requirement for passengers transiting airside would fundamentally undermine the rationale of the scheme by creating a permission free route of travel into the UK which would be open to abuse.</p><p> </p><p>We will keep our position under review to monitor the impact on transit as the scheme is rolled out.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 11:47:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1675236

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Travel Authorisations
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 potential merits of applying the same exemptions as apply to the EU ETIAS scheme for airside transit visitors to the UK’s ETA scheme.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	5007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>One of the Government’s main priorities is to keep the UK safe. The Government is firmly committed to strengthening the UK’s border by ensuring that everyone wishing to travel to, or transit through, the UK (except British and Irish citizens) must seek permission in advance of travel.</p><p>The ETA scheme, once fully rolled out, will close the current gap in advance permissions for non-visa nationals, visiting or transiting the UK.</p><p>The information provided in an ETA application will be used to conduct checks and prevent anyone who poses a threat travelling to the UK.</p><p>Whilst the EU has taken a different approach to airside transit passengers in their ETIAS scheme, many of our international partners with similar schemes, such as the US, New Zealand and Canada, do apply the requirements of their respective scheme to transit passengers.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2023 17:01:14 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1488447

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 help ensure faster progress on the development of non-animal technologies for use in scientific research and testing; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	34889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the use of animals in science is justified, for the benefits it brings to human, animal and environmental health and safety.</p><p>The Government is committed to assuring that those animals used in science are protected. The legal framework in the UK requires that animals are only ever used in scientific procedures where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.</p><p>The Government continues to actively support and fund alternatives to the use of animals. The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) leads on developing and sharing techniques in the UK and internationally.</p><p>Since the NC3Rs was launched in 2004, it has invested £77 million in research towards developing new approaches to Replace, Reduce and Refine the use of animals in scientific procedures, and an additional £32 million through its CRACK IT programme for SMEs and universities to work with the pharmaceutical and chemical industries on collaborative 3Rs projects that aim to generate commercial opportunities in this area.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 34890 34891 question first answered 21/07/2022 11:41:54 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 14513 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1488448

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential economic merits of the UK becoming a global leader in the development of non-animal technologies for use in scientific research and testing.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	34890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the use of animals in science is justified, for the benefits it brings to human, animal and environmental health and safety.</p><p>The Government is committed to assuring that those animals used in science are protected. The legal framework in the UK requires that animals are only ever used in scientific procedures where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.</p><p>The Government continues to actively support and fund alternatives to the use of animals. The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) leads on developing and sharing techniques in the UK and internationally.</p><p>Since the NC3Rs was launched in 2004, it has invested £77 million in research towards developing new approaches to Replace, Reduce and Refine the use of animals in scientific procedures, and an additional £32 million through its CRACK IT programme for SMEs and universities to work with the pharmaceutical and chemical industries on collaborative 3Rs projects that aim to generate commercial opportunities in this area.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 34889 34891 question first answered 21/07/2022 11:41:54 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 14516 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1488449

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 commit to the (a) phasing out the use of animals in experiments and (b) phasing in of non-animal alternatives as soon as it is scientifically possible to do so; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	34891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the use of animals in science is justified, for the benefits it brings to human, animal and environmental health and safety.</p><p>The Government is committed to assuring that those animals used in science are protected. The legal framework in the UK requires that animals are only ever used in scientific procedures where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.</p><p>The Government continues to actively support and fund alternatives to the use of animals. The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) leads on developing and sharing techniques in the UK and internationally.</p><p>Since the NC3Rs was launched in 2004, it has invested £77 million in research towards developing new approaches to Replace, Reduce and Refine the use of animals in scientific procedures, and an additional £32 million through its CRACK IT programme for SMEs and universities to work with the pharmaceutical and chemical industries on collaborative 3Rs projects that aim to generate commercial opportunities in this area.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 34889 34890 question first answered 21/07/2022 11:41:54 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 14506 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1452244

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an (a) economic and (b) equalities impact assessment of bringing forward legislative proposals for humanist marriages ahead of the outcome of the Law Commission's review of marriage law.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	141959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government consulted in 2014 on marriages by non-religious belief organisations. This concluded that the matter was complex, and that by allowing Humanists to solemnise marriages in unrestricted locations, the Government would create a provision for Humanists that would not be available to all groups. Its summary assessment of costs and benefits was published in the response, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/marriages-by-non-religious-belief-organisations</a>.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure we are considering the implications of changing the law on marriage on all groups, we invited the Law Commission to undertake a review which is currently underway and is expected to report in July of this year. By looking at the law comprehensively, the Law Commission will seek to put forward proposals that would ensure that, insofar as possible, groups and couples are all subject to the same rules, costs, and the same level of regulation. That reform is not possible by only authorising Humanist weddings, even on a temporary basis pending the Law Commission report. The Government will reconsider this issue on the basis of the Law Commission's recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/03/2022 16:53:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith