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1203712

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether all Prevent strategy projects commissioned by local authorities are also directly approved by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	59484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>To help monitor the impact, effectiveness and value for money of local Prevent delivery, local authorities in receipt of Home Office Prevent funding submit quarterly returns to the Home Office. These provide evidence of local Prevent activities, outcomes, issues and expenditure. These returns are not publicly available.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 10:19:12 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1184030

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Action Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve Action Fraud's performance.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	27627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>As the National Lead Force for fraud, the City of London Police (CoLP) are responsible for the performance of the Action Fraud service. Together with the City of London Corporation, CoLP commissioned an independent review led by Sir Craig Mackey QPM into the standards, culture and management of Action Fraud.  The findings and recommendations of that review were published on  24th January: <a href="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/Pages/police-authority.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/Pages/police-authority.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Working with the City of London Corporation, the NCA and Home Office, the City of London Police will address Sir Craig’s recommendations regarding Action Fraud and the NFIB.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of the 20/21 police funding settlement, City of London Police received additional funding to allow them to recruit additional staff for the Action Fraud call centre. Despite the current challenging circumstances, work has continued to recruit and develop remote training for these additional staff at pace.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 16:55:38 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1181953

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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, with reference to clause 20 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, whether a timetable has been agreed for the (a) application, (b) interview and (c) appointment process to appoint a reviewer for the Prevent programme in order to achieve the 18-month timeframe set by that statute.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	23626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the Independent Review of Prevent and launched a full and open recruitment competition to appoint the next Independent Reviewer of Prevent on 27 April 2020. Applications closed on 22 June 2020. Interviews are due to take place in July. The successful candidate will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We have included in the Counter Terrorism and Sentencing Bill a measure to remove the existing statutory deadline for the Review set out in the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 while maintaining the legislative commitment to undertake it. This is to ensure that the new Reviewer has sufficient time to complete the Review. The Government aims for the Review to be completed by August 2021.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 16:56:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1180395

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 12377, on Offenders: Radicalism, if she will list the (a) knowledge and (b) skills criteria required by Imams when recruited to challenge the beliefs of radicalised offenders.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	20561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has formulated a combined response to the Member’s questions given the connected nature of the questions.</p><p> </p><p>23 Chaplaincy Intervention Providers (IPs) have been selected to deliver the Theological and Ideological Interventions (TII) Programme in prisons. All Chaplaincy IPs are existing HMPPS Chaplaincy employees – recommended by HMPPS Counter-Terrorism specialist frontline staff, and subject to Government vetting and due diligence checks.</p><p> </p><p>They were selected based on experience, knowledge and skills in challenging extremism, including but not limited to strong communication skills, experience in supporting the rehabilitation of TACT and TACT-connected offenders, and previous theological training.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to release the names of the Chaplaincy IPs, as these are operational staff who are not Senior Civil Servants.</p><p> </p><p>The onboarding of Chaplaincy IPs includes an initial week-long training package on how to deliver one-to-one interventions, theological and ideological narratives and counter narratives; and, psychological therapeutic approaches. Training is delivered and reviewed in partnership with local Counter-Terrorism teams, and other practitioners working in complementary fields. Chaplaincy IPs also receive ongoing training, support and feedback via headquarters, their local counter terrorism teams, and external practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>We are not in a position to release the Chaplaincy IP training materials. This is because the likely threat to the good order and security of prisons, and the implications of this for prisoners and staff, favours non-disclosure of information detailing operational procedure such as guidance around extremist behavioural indicators and staff reporting and case management of offenders’ extremism risk.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 20562 20563 20564 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:02:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1180396

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 12377, on Offenders: Radicalism, if she will publish the training materials on (a) theology and (b) counter-terrorism for the Theological and Ideological Interventions Programme that are used to train Imams tasked with challenging the beliefs of radicalised offenders.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	20562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has formulated a combined response to the Member’s questions given the connected nature of the questions.</p><p> </p><p>23 Chaplaincy Intervention Providers (IPs) have been selected to deliver the Theological and Ideological Interventions (TII) Programme in prisons. All Chaplaincy IPs are existing HMPPS Chaplaincy employees – recommended by HMPPS Counter-Terrorism specialist frontline staff, and subject to Government vetting and due diligence checks.</p><p> </p><p>They were selected based on experience, knowledge and skills in challenging extremism, including but not limited to strong communication skills, experience in supporting the rehabilitation of TACT and TACT-connected offenders, and previous theological training.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to release the names of the Chaplaincy IPs, as these are operational staff who are not Senior Civil Servants.</p><p> </p><p>The onboarding of Chaplaincy IPs includes an initial week-long training package on how to deliver one-to-one interventions, theological and ideological narratives and counter narratives; and, psychological therapeutic approaches. Training is delivered and reviewed in partnership with local Counter-Terrorism teams, and other practitioners working in complementary fields. Chaplaincy IPs also receive ongoing training, support and feedback via headquarters, their local counter terrorism teams, and external practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>We are not in a position to release the Chaplaincy IP training materials. This is because the likely threat to the good order and security of prisons, and the implications of this for prisoners and staff, favours non-disclosure of information detailing operational procedure such as guidance around extremist behavioural indicators and staff reporting and case management of offenders’ extremism risk.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 20561 20563 20564 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:02:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1180397

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 12377, on Offenders: Radicalism, if she will (a) provide the names of the Chaplaincy Intervention Providers selected to deliver the Theological and Ideological Interventions Programme and (b) provide details of the basis on which those providers were selected.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	20563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has formulated a combined response to the Member’s questions given the connected nature of the questions.</p><p> </p><p>23 Chaplaincy Intervention Providers (IPs) have been selected to deliver the Theological and Ideological Interventions (TII) Programme in prisons. All Chaplaincy IPs are existing HMPPS Chaplaincy employees – recommended by HMPPS Counter-Terrorism specialist frontline staff, and subject to Government vetting and due diligence checks.</p><p> </p><p>They were selected based on experience, knowledge and skills in challenging extremism, including but not limited to strong communication skills, experience in supporting the rehabilitation of TACT and TACT-connected offenders, and previous theological training.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to release the names of the Chaplaincy IPs, as these are operational staff who are not Senior Civil Servants.</p><p> </p><p>The onboarding of Chaplaincy IPs includes an initial week-long training package on how to deliver one-to-one interventions, theological and ideological narratives and counter narratives; and, psychological therapeutic approaches. Training is delivered and reviewed in partnership with local Counter-Terrorism teams, and other practitioners working in complementary fields. Chaplaincy IPs also receive ongoing training, support and feedback via headquarters, their local counter terrorism teams, and external practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>We are not in a position to release the Chaplaincy IP training materials. This is because the likely threat to the good order and security of prisons, and the implications of this for prisoners and staff, favours non-disclosure of information detailing operational procedure such as guidance around extremist behavioural indicators and staff reporting and case management of offenders’ extremism risk.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 20561 20562 20564 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:02:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1180398

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 11 February 2020 to Question 12377, on Offenders: Radicalism, what the (a) onboarding process and (b) management process will be for Imams tasked with challenging the beliefs of radicalised offenders.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	20564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has formulated a combined response to the Member’s questions given the connected nature of the questions.</p><p> </p><p>23 Chaplaincy Intervention Providers (IPs) have been selected to deliver the Theological and Ideological Interventions (TII) Programme in prisons. All Chaplaincy IPs are existing HMPPS Chaplaincy employees – recommended by HMPPS Counter-Terrorism specialist frontline staff, and subject to Government vetting and due diligence checks.</p><p> </p><p>They were selected based on experience, knowledge and skills in challenging extremism, including but not limited to strong communication skills, experience in supporting the rehabilitation of TACT and TACT-connected offenders, and previous theological training.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to release the names of the Chaplaincy IPs, as these are operational staff who are not Senior Civil Servants.</p><p> </p><p>The onboarding of Chaplaincy IPs includes an initial week-long training package on how to deliver one-to-one interventions, theological and ideological narratives and counter narratives; and, psychological therapeutic approaches. Training is delivered and reviewed in partnership with local Counter-Terrorism teams, and other practitioners working in complementary fields. Chaplaincy IPs also receive ongoing training, support and feedback via headquarters, their local counter terrorism teams, and external practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>We are not in a position to release the Chaplaincy IP training materials. This is because the likely threat to the good order and security of prisons, and the implications of this for prisoners and staff, favours non-disclosure of information detailing operational procedure such as guidance around extremist behavioural indicators and staff reporting and case management of offenders’ extremism risk.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 20561 20562 20563 question first answered 25/06/2020 17:02:24 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1179728

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firefighters were available for duty in (a) Cumbria, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) Lancashire, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) London in 2015; and how many such firefighters are available in each of those areas in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	19887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes annual workforce figures for fire and rescue services (FRSs) in England. Figures for 2020 will be published in Autumn 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The full published data are available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity</a></p><p> </p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on how many of these firefighters are available for duty.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 17:08:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1178981

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ofcom: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what enforcement mechanisms Ofcom will be given to regulate tech companies.
tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
tabling member printed	Mrs Andrea Jenkyns
uin	18633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>In February 2020, the Government published the initial consultation response to the Online Harms White Paper and announced that it was minded to appoint Ofcom as the online line harms regulator.</p><p>Subject to remaining government and parliamentary processes, the regulator will have strong enforcement powers to deal with non-compliance and drive remedial action. The new regulatory framework will introduce a duty of care, overseen by the independent regulator. This will ensure that companies, where appropriate, take prompt, transparent and effective action to address online harms.</p><p>In the White Paper we set out that the regulator will have sufficient powers to take effective action against companies that breach regulator requirements. We have consulted on the most appropriate enforcement powers for the regulator, and are considering measures including notices, warning, fines and business disruption measures. Further information will be included in the full government response which will be published in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 17:07:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1177010

registered interest
date	07/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: 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 ensure that the police have adequate provisions to counter terrorist content online.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	13964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that there can be no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views online.</p><p>The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) identifies, assesses and refers online content that is in breach of UK terrorism legislation to technology companies for removal in accordance with their terms of service. To date, in excess of 310,000 individual pieces of terrorist content referred by CTIRU have been removed by companies.</p><p>Police powers need to keep pace with technological developments and the changing way terrorists use the internet. As part of this we amended the law through the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 to update the offence of obtaining information “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism” to include viewing or streaming content online.</p><p>It is important that we ensure counter-terrorism policing has the resources needed to deal with the threat we face. That is why we increased the budget for counter-terrorism policing in 2020-21 by £90m this year compared with last, taking CT police funding to over £900m for the first time</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 17:03:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord