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1360562

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hamas: Proscribed Organisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Government's proscription of Hamas.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
uin	903772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Hamas’ military wing was proscribed in the UK in 2001.</p><p>Proscription is a powerful tool. The investigation and prosecution of proscription offences is a matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service.</p><p>It would be inappropriate for the Government to comment further on such matters however, anyone that professes support for, or who is a member of Hamas, risks being investigated by the police for proscription offences.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/10/2021 15:11:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford

1360568

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she had with Police Scotland prior to the laying of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Scottish Sites under Section 129) Order 2021.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	903778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Officials in the Home Office worked closely with Scottish Parliament counterparts throughout the process.</p><p>For security reasons we do not comment on the underlying reasons for the decision. Designation as a protected site will assist the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body to strengthen protection of the Parliament as a key civic institution.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/10/2021 15:21:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1360637

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Antidepressants
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 Animals in Science Regulation Unit and other stakeholders on granting licences for the use of the forced swim test for screening of antidepressant drugs or as a model of human depression in response to the recommendations of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research, published 29 July 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	58316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>The Animals in Science Regulation Unit were involved in contributing to and reviewing the paper cited and it thus aligns to the regulatory approach taken by the Unit.</p><p>The Home Office through the Animals in Science Regulation Unit assures that, in every research proposal animals are replaced with non-animal alternatives wherever possible; the number of animals are reduced to the minimum necessary to achieve the result sought; and that, for those animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as possible to minimise their suffering.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/10/2021 14:43:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 26008 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1360689

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition
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 abuse of the Interpol red notices system for political reasons by states abusing the human rights of (a) Uyghur people, (b) political opponents of the Russian Government, (c) human rights activists in China and (d) journalists.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	58353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports INTERPOL in its efforts to improve the safeguards it has in place to protect human rights and preclude interventions or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character. The Government views any allegation of misuse of INTERPOL’s systems very seriously and works closely with INTERPOL to ensure the legitimacy of the Red Notice system.</p><p>All Red Notices are subject to review by a multidisciplinary Notices and Diffusions Task Force in INTERPOL prior to publication to ensure legal compliance and prevent abuse of INTERPOL systems. In November 2019 the Home Office seconded a senior lawyer to INTERPOL to support the work of the Taskforce.</p><p>The UK is committed to the principle of non-refoulement and has repeatedly called on other countries to respect their obligations not to force persons to return to a country where there are substantial grounds for believing they would be in danger of being subjected to torture.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2021 16:52:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 27257 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1360835

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity: International Cooperation
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 with her international counterparts to strengthen the UK's national resilience against (a) ransomware and (b) wider cyber crime.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	58436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s priority, working alongside law enforcement and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is to do all we can to mitigate any harm to the UK from ransomware and other cyber crimes.</p><p>We co-ordinate closely with a wide range of international partners, from our operational relationships with foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies through to the use of our diplomatic network to build global resilience. We share our analysis of the threat and our criminal justice expertise to increase the capabilities and commitment of countries around the world to respond and deter malicious cyber activity. We have a global network of cyber attachés who work with international partners to raise awareness and build capacity to defend against cyberattacks, including coordinating on our approaches to attributing malicious cyber activity.</p><p>Our commitment to strengthening international action on cyber crime was demonstrated at the G7 summit in June; G7 partners committed to work together to urgently address the escalating shared threats from cyber criminal networks. We continue to engage with G7 partners on this. Furthermore, the UK recently met with over 30 international partners to discuss the growing threat of ransomware, focusing on a range of options to better coordinate our activity to improve the resilience of our networks and systems.</p><p>More widely, the Government strongly supports the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime as the leading international treaty on cybercrime, and we welcome the work of the Council of Europe to develop the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention, to ensure that the Convention remains effective in the face of changing threats in cyberspace, and that it continues to provide an effective legal basis for international cooperation to tackle these threats. In addition, the UK will play an active role in the development of the proposed UN treaty on cybercrime.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/10/2021 11:21:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 26010 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1360837

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hamas: Proscribed Organisations
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 effectiveness of the Government's proscription of Hamas.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
uin	58575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>Hamas’ military wing was proscribed in the UK in 2001.</p><p>The investigation and prosecution of proscription offences is a matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service. It would be inappropriate for the Government to comment further on such matters. Anyone that professes support for, or who is a member of Military Wing risks being investigated by the police for proscription offences.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/10/2021 08:54:10 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 27755 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford