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1685540

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to outlaw the use of artificial intelligence deepfake programmes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>Generative artificial intelligence services have made it easier to produce convincing deepfake content and, whilst there are legitimate use cases this is also impacting a range of crime types.</p><p>The Home Office is working closely with law enforcement, international partners, industry and across Government to address the risks associated with deepfakes. This includes reviewing the extent to which existing criminal law provides coverage of AI-enabled offending and harmful behaviour, including the production and distribution of deepfake material using generative AI. If the review suggests alterations to the criminal law are required to clarify its application to AI-generated synthetic and manipulated material then amendments will be considered in the usual way.</p><p>The Online Safety Act places new requirements on social media platforms to swiftly remove illegal content - including artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes - as soon as they become aware of it. The Act also updates Ofcom’s statutory media literacy duty to require it to take tangible steps to prioritise the public's awareness of and resilience to misinformation and disinformation online. This includes enabling users to establish the reliability, accuracy, and authenticity of content.</p><p>We have no current plans to ban services which generate deepfakes, however Government has been clear that companies providing AI services should take steps to ensure safety and reduce the risks of misuse. This was discussed at the Government’s AI Safety Summit in November 2023, reinforcing our commitment to international collaboration on this shared challenge.</p><p>Crime is recorded on the basis of the underlying offence, not whether a deepfake was involved, and we are therefore unable to provide a figure for deepfake-enabled crimes.</p><p>We are unable to provide figures for departmental spending as this is captured according to crime type, or broader work on artificial intelligence, and not broken down into activities specific to deepfakes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 11722 11724 11725 question first answered 06/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1684416

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crown Dependencies: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the decision by (a) Guernsey, (b) Jersey and (c) the Isle of Man to withdraw the commitment to allow public access to registers of company beneficial ownership.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	11012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>A Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) on 19 December 2023 provided a comprehensive update on this issue (HCWS151).</p><p>Publicly accessible registers of beneficial ownership are an essential tool for tackling illicit finance. That is why in 2016 the UK set up our own publicly accessible register of beneficial ownership, the People with Significant Control (PSCs) register, which was the first of its kind in the world. The UK Government is still committed to publicly accessible registers becoming the global norm, including in the Crown Dependencies (CDs) and Overseas Territories (OTs). Many other countries and jurisdictions around the world have joined us. We are still working with others to achieve this aim.</p><p>Regarding the 2022 CJEU judgment and other relevant rulings, the UK is satisfied with the lawfulness of our own publicly accessible registers and continues to believe that the CDs could legally implement public registers of their own. As set out in my WMS in December, according to Transparency International, currently 14 EU Member States allow public access to their beneficial ownership registers. Gibraltar has maintained a publicly accessible beneficial ownership register since 2020 and has not noted any negative economic impacts resulting from implementation of its public register.</p><p>On 13 December 2023, the CDs issued new public commitments on providing access to their beneficial ownership registers for obliged entities and those with a legitimate interest, including media and civil society organisations. While the Home Office broadly welcomed these commitments as a very significant step forward in beneficial ownership transparency, it is not the pace the UK Government expects, and the CDs have been urged to implement them as quickly as possible this year.</p><p>On 18 January 2024, the EU published proposals on their Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD), which the CDs stated in their public commitments will help inform the development of their own definitions of legitimate interest access. With this important development, and considering the time that has elapsed since their original 2019 commitments, and the importance these improvements will bring to the security of the UK and the wider British family, the Home Office is urging the CDs to make progress as quickly as possible this year.</p><p>The UK Government position remains that the CDs should be working towards publicly accessible registers in the longer term. Nevertheless, the Home Office looks forward to seeing these commitments on legitimate interest access being adopted by the appropriate CD parliaments. Parliament will wish to consider the CDs’ commitments and will closely monitor the situation.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 27/02/2024 16:52:37 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1671370

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Ilois
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 of Chagossian descent have been refused British nationality in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	2531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>We are unable to provide this data as we do not record data relating to an individual’s ancestor.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 2530 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:31:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1669276

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Demonstrations
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 make it her policy to bring forward legislative proposals to allow the Government to ban protests in absence of a request from the requisite police commissioner.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	1314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government has been in regular contact with the police over the use of their powers to manage protests. Where we identify gaps in the legislation, we will seek to address them.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/11/2023 17:08:29 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1654632

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been granted British overseas territories citizenship in each of the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	195340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently publish this data, due to ongoing developments with the underlying data systems. Historic data up to 2018 can be found in Table Cit_03 in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables-year-ending-march-2023" target="_blank">citizenship summary tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2023 15:29:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627589

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Judicial Review: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review applications were made by foreign national offenders in prisons under the Human Rights Act 1998 in each of the last ten years; and how many and what proportion of these were successful.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>Information on the number of judicial review applications made by foreign national offenders in prisons under the Human Rights Act cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/05/2023 09:21:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1545842

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nationals of British Overseas Territories have been refused entry to the United Kingdom in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	97455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes numbers of people refused entry at UK ports, who subsequently departed (“port returns”) in the quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics release</a>. The latest data are to the end of June 2022.</p><p>A breakdown of port returns by nationality for different periods is given in table Ret_D01 of the accompanying <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118059/returns-datasets-sep-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">detailed returns data tables</a>. Please note that most of the British Overseas Territories nationalities have been grouped into one nationality group “British Overseas Citizens”. Others which appear more commonly in the figures, such as Bermuda, are shown separately.</p><p>Port returns include people who are refused entry and are returned, so are therefore not a count of all people refused entry.</p><p>Further information about how to use this data is available in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2022/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned#about-the-statistics" target="_blank">About the statistics</a>’ section and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9/user-guide-to-immigration-statistics" target="_blank">user guide</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/12/2022 16:50:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1541738

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
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 plans to take in response to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on her proposals to deport migrants who cross the Channel in small boats to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	86413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The European Court of Human Rights has not issued a final judgment in the relation to the UK’s Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda. In June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights granted last-minute interim measures which prohibited the removal of individuals set to be relocated to Rwanda on 14 June 2022. An interim measure remains in place until three weeks after the end of ongoing judicial review proceedings in the UK in relation to this policy. In making these interim measures, the European Court of Human Rights did not rule that the policy or removals were unlawful. There were three hearings in the ongoing judicial review proceedings in the UK courts in September and October. We are awaiting judgment in those cases.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/11/2022 10:58:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1538516

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	China: Intelligence Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with her counterpart in the Netherlands on the operation of unlicensed police stations by the Chinese government.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	77322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2022 answer text <p>As I said to the House in my statement on 1 November, reports of undeclared ‘police stations’ in the UK are of course very concerning and are taken extremely seriously. Any foreign country operating on UK soil must abide by UK law.</p><p>In the specific case of the alleged overseas police stations, as I stated to the House on the 1 November, I have spoken to the police and I am assured that they are investigating allegations of unlawful activity. It would be inappropriate for me to comment further on operational matters, including on the status of potential international collaboration.</p><p>We do maintain a good relationship with various international counterparts and regularly engage with others on the issue of transnational repression more widely.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 10/11/2022 17:27:40 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1464995

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress has been made on the Government's consultation on the British Nationality Act 1981 in respect to discriminatory citizenship rules for people from the British Overseas Territories.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	6705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The Nationality and Borders Act 2022 has created registration routes for the children of British Overseas Territory citizen mothers, and those who would have become British Overseas Territories citizens had their parents been married. Those affected by historical discrimination will be able to acquire both British Overseas Territories citizenship and British citizenship, giving them the statuses they would otherwise have received automatically.</p><p>Applications for British Overseas Territories citizenship under existing routes are decided in the territories by Governors. There is currently no specific route for the children of British Overseas Territories citizen mothers, or unmarried fathers, to claim citizenship. The new routes we are introducing will allow them to apply.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 6706 question first answered 08/06/2022 17:01:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 3818 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell