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1201221

registered interest
date	08/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	55931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely comment on intelligence matters, including whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/06/2020 13:52:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1359827

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Convention on Cybercrime
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 an assessment of the implications for her policies of the debate that took place at the Council of Europe on 30 September 2021 on the Convention on Cybercrime.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	56937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime as the leading international treaty on cybercrime. We also welcome the work of the Council of Europe to develop the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention, to ensure that the Convention remains effective if the face of changing threats in cyberspace, and that it continues to provide an effective legal basis for international cooperation to tackle these threats.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/10/2021 16:50:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1359830

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Honour Based Violence
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 an assessment of the implications for her policies of the debate on so-called honour crimes at the Council of Europe on 28 September 2021.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	56940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2021 answer text <p>So called 'honour’-based abuse (HBA) is a terrible form of abuse, and we are clear that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it. No-one should suffer because of who they are or what community they are born into.</p><p>Our focus remains on preventing these crimes from happening, supporting and protecting survivors and those at risk, and bringing perpetrators to justice. The Home Office is providing up to £150,000 to the charity Karma Nirvana this year to run its national HBA helpline; between April and September 2021 the helpline provided assistance to 1,212 users of the service. The joint Home Office/Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Forced Marriage Unit has provided advice and support for thousands of victims of forced marriage and delivers regular training to police officers and social workers.</p><p>The Government’s recent Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy set out a number of further actions to tackle HBA, including that the Home Office will seek out community advocates who can talk to community audiences to explain why HBA practices are wrong, that the College of Policing will produce advice for police officers to advise both first responders and investigators on how to deal with cases of HBA, and that the Department for Health and Social Care will work to criminalise ‘virginity testing’ to send a clear message that this practice is wholly unacceptable in our society.</p><p>We welcome the insights communicated in the debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe last month. The Government pays close attention to the experiences of our international partners in tackling HBA and works closely with them in tackling it. For example, in 2018 the Government signed a protocol on female genital mutilation (FGM) with the United States to increase collaboration and the sharing of intelligence between the two countries. This enabled the UK and the United States to run Operation Limelight (a joint operation between border staff and the police which seeks to raise awareness of FGM and forced marriage at the border in order to safeguard potential victims) concurrently at several ports in the two countries.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 20/10/2021 15:47:31 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1418198

registered interest
date	31/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migration
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 implications for her policies of the debate entitled European Pact on Migration and Asylum, which took place at the Council of Europe between 24 and 28 January 2022; and what steps she plans to take to assess its conclusions.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	114702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>A: The UK government is aware of the debate entitled European Pact on Migration and Asylum, during the recent session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and notes the resolution agreed by PACE on the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is committed to increasing cooperation with European member states to strengthen borders and to deter secondary movement to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Nationality and Borders Bill, which is currently before Parliament, will drive forward reform of the UK’s asylum system.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 04/02/2022 14:34:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1461167

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Violence
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 implications for her policies of the debate entitled Fighting and preventing excessive and unjustified use of force by law enforcement officers, which took place at the Council of Europe on 27 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to the principle that all police use of force must be reasonable, proportionate and necessary and this is set in law.</p><p>We recognise the crucial work of the Council of Europe and in particular the Parliamentary Assembly in this sphere, noting that recommendations will go to the Committee of Ministers in due course for appropriate review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/05/2022 11:59:08 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1461168

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 been made of the implications for her policies of the debate entitled How to put confiscated criminal assets to good use?, which took place at the Council of Europe on 27 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>The UK has mature policies in place relating to the disposal of confiscated criminal assets. Domestically, confiscated assets are disposed of in line with the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS), under which operational agencies are allocated a portion of the assets recovered.</p><p>The use of ARIS allocations/payments is a matter for each agency. However, in the spirit of the Scheme, incentive payments should be used to drive up performance on asset recovery and, where appropriate, to fund local crime fighting priorities for the benefit of the community.</p><p>Internationally, the UK is fully committed to recovering and returning corruptly obtained assets. HMG has recently published its first ever Framework for Transparent and Accountable Return, which details HMG’s process for returning assets in line with UNCAC, including the involvement of civil society actors in this process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/05/2022 11:28:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1522877

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Schengen Agreement: ICT
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 implications for her policies of the debate entitled Misuse of the Schengen Information system by Council of Europe member States as a politically-motivated sanction, which took place at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 11 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	64005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The management of the external Schengen border, including through the application of the second generation of the Schengen Information System, is a matter for the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/10/2022 17:01:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 27419 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1522880

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 implications to her policies of the debate entitled Safe third countries for asylum seekers, which took place at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 12 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	64008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>We are aware of the debate on third country processes and the subsequent non-legally binding resolutions arising from it by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, as adopted on 12 October.</p><p>Our inadmissibility policies in respect of safe third countries, which are longstanding, and were recently strengthened in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, are the consequence of full and careful consideration of the legal and operational context. We are confident that these policies and the processes they underpin, are compliant with relevant domestic and international laws and agreements, including the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/10/2022 10:25:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1541523

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to prevent the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from interfering in British political, cultural and religious life.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	84853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>Though we do not routinely comment on operational matters or specific threats, the UK will always stand up to threats from foreign nations. We will use all tools at our disposal to protect the UK and our interests from any Iran-linked threats.</p><p>I recognise the importance of tackling all threats to, and interference in, the functioning of our democracy and our civil society.</p><p>As I announced in this House on 1 November, the Prime Minister has asked me to lead a taskforce to drive forward work to protect UK democratic processes. This taskforce will consider the full range of threats, including interference, to build further resilience within our democratic institutions and safeguard against physical, personnel and cyber threats.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 16/11/2022 17:53:21 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1581819

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	COE Parliamentary Assembly
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 implications for her policies of the debate entitled The Istanbul Convention, which took place at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 25 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	135200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>The UK ratified the Istanbul Convention on 21 July 2022, demonstrating our commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG). The Convention came into force in the UK on 1 November 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the crucial work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the involvement of all members of the UK delegation. We know of the important PACE debate which took place on the Istanbul Convention on 25 January, during which there was a discussion, amongst other things, about how we need societal attitudes to change and the importance of educating everyone, in particular men and boys, that VAWG is unacceptable. We recognise this and that is why in March 2022, we launched a national communications campaign, ‘Enough’, to target and challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within society, educate young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensure victims can recognise abuse and receive support. The second phase of the campaign launched in October 2022 and focuses on the range of safe ways a bystander can safely intervene if they witness VAWG.</p><p> </p><p>Our Tackling VAWG Strategy and complementary Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan aim to transform the response to these crimes with actions to prevent abuse, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to ensure the right systems are in place to tackle them.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 07/02/2023 09:26:55 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell