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1685517

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	Busking: Religious Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in light of a recent reported incident in London, whether he has issued recent guidance to the police on the rights of people to sing religious songs in a public setting.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	11698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to religious freedom and free speech, and singing religious songs outside a church is not in itself prohibited.</p><p>The police are operationally independent and there is a well established process for addressing complaints.</p><p>The Home Office will not be issuing guidance on the matter.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 01/02/2024 12:27:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1684752

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Strategic Migration Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress his Department has made with the Executive Office of Northern Ireland in establishing a grant agreement for the successor arrangement to the Northern Ireland Strategic Migration Partnership.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	11271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office continues to engage with Northern Ireland government departments to progress agreements to ensure continued delivery for service users in Northern Ireland. We have multiple agreements with varying Northern Ireland government departments in place to achieve this.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 29/01/2024 17:21:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1684358

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	Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department made an assessment before 2023 of the potential impact of the introduction of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) on the number of personnel required to carry out checks in the event that the ETA did necessitate checks at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	10998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government remains committed to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and in support of this, ensuring there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, so no such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>As now, the UK will not operate routine immigration controls on journeys from within the Common Travel Area, with no immigration controls whatsoever on the Ireland-Northern Ireland land border.</p><p> </p><p>However, as is currently the case, individuals arriving in the UK, including those crossing the land border into Northern Ireland, will need to continue to enter in line with the UK’s immigration framework, including the requirement to obtain an ETA when it is introduced.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/01/2024 09:56:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1683624

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any personnel have been deployed in Northern Ireland under Operation Gull in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	10597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>Operation Gull is an intelligence led operation and deployments have been made in the last 12 months on that basis.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/01/2024 16:18:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1683626

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hotels are in use as asylum seeker accommodation as of 19 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	10598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>As a result of the range of measures we have implemented to stop the boats, reform the management of the asylum accommodation estate and the delivery of alternative forms of accommodation sites, we are now able to stop the procurement of new asylum hotels and begin the first phase of hotel exits. 50 hotels are due to be closed by the end of January and many more in the coming months.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAndrea.Morison%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C0a9340120a264e8e24ef08dc1b2b74e8%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638415120658503370%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=zeRKZDW5ZlUPItudCB3jMOkOc7qu75majDk%2BMYv1FmA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/01/2024 16:14:52 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1681772

registered interest
date	12/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Defending Democracy Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Defending Democracy Taskforce met in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	9336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Defending Democracy Taskforce is an enduring government function which seeks to protect the democratic integrity of the UK by reducing the threat of foreign interference.</p><p>The Taskforce is engaging across government and with Parliament, the UK’s intelligence community, the devolved governments, local authorities, the private sector, and civil society on the full range of threats facing our democratic institutions.</p><p>Over the last 12 months, the Taskforce has met eleven times.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 17/01/2024 17:23:00 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1681773

registered interest
date	12/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Draft Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to respond to the Fourth Report of Session 2022–23 of the Home Affairs Select Committee entitled Terrorism (Protection of Premises) draft Bill, HC 1359.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	9337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is grateful to the Home Affairs Commitee for the pre-legislative scrutiny undertaken. We remain committed to introducing the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill in this session of Parliament. The Bill which was announced in the King’s Speech on Tuesday 7th November.</p><p>Ahead of introduction, we will soon launch a public consultation on proposed amendments to the Bill’s Standard Tier, in light of the recommendations from HASC and wider engagement activity. We recognise the Bill must strike the right balance between public protection and avoiding undue burdens on smaller premises.</p><p>The Government is carefully considering its response to the Home Affairs Select Committee, which will be provided alongside a Government response to the consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 17/01/2024 17:38:08 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1681066

registered interest
date	10/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Antisemitism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to the Jewish Community Police, Crime and Security Taskforce in 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	8932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government continues to provide protective security funding to the Jewish community through the Jewish Community Protective Security (JCPS) Grant. This includes £3 million of funding announced by the Prime Minister in October for the Community Security Trust (CST) to provide additional security at Jewish schools, synagogues and other Jewish community sites. This brings total funding for CST, through the Grant, to £18 million in 2023/24, and this will remain at £18 million in 2024/25.</p><p>The Taskforce does not have a specific budget allocation and does not currently have any specific costs associated with its work.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 16/01/2024 12:31:30 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1677704

registered interest
date	13/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Safer Streets Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what lessons his Department has learned from the most recent independent evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	6763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>All rounds of the Safer Streets Fund delivered to date have been subject to independent evaluation to grow the evidence base of what works to improve public safety and feelings of safety, and to inform future policy and funding decisions.</p><p>Findings from evaluation activities show interventions delivered with Safer Streets funding are boosting trust in local policing, making communities feel safer and restoring people’s pride in where they live. This reflects the efforts made to make residents aware of the work being done to make them feel more secure such as fitting home security measures and rolling out additional CCTV and streetlighting. In addition, evaluation findings have identified key learnings and several recommendations for the Home Office, which have been incorporated into the design and development of subsequent rounds.</p><p>The full findings of the independent evaluation of Round One can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safer-streets-fund-evaluation-round-1-year-ending-march-2021/evaluation-of-the-safer-streets-fund-round-1-year-ending-march-2021#impact-evaluation-findings" target="_blank">Evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund Round 1, year ending March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2023 17:38:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1677252

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Personal Names
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times have registered sex offenders (a) attempted to change their names and (b) been prevented from changing their names by legal means in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	6410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>Registered sex offenders are required to notify name changes to the police. Failure to do so is an offence punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. In addition, the police – on application to a court – can limit an individual’s ability to change their name through a Sexual Harm Prevention or Sexual Risk Order if necessary to protect members of the public from sexual harm.</p><p>Data related to name changes for these offenders and conditions imposed via civil orders are not collated centrally.</p><p>To help ensure our system is as robust as it can be, the Home Office will bring forward measures through the Criminal Justice Bill to restrict the ability of registered sex offenders to change their name in certain circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2023 11:38:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell