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date	22/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Synthetic Cannabinoids: Misuse
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 appropriateness of the current classification of the drug commonly know as Spice as a class B substance; and if she will reclassify Spice as a class A substance.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	124009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The group of third generation synthetic cannabinoids, commonly referred to using the brand name ‘spice’, were controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in December 2016. This followed recommendations from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs that their harms are commensurate with other class B drugs.</p><p>The Government has no plans to reclassify these synthetic cannabinoids at the present time, but we will continue to monitor their misuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/01/2018 15:58:20 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

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date	17/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions she has put in place for people who grew up in care and are unable to provide a birth certificate when applying for a passport.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	108350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HM Passport Office) needs to be satisfied with an applicant’s claim to nationality, identity and entitlement to issue a passport. The absence of a birth certificate in itself does not preclude the issue of a passport and applications are assessed on a case by case basis considering the information and alternative documents available.</p><p>Where no documentation is available, there is provision within the British Nationality legislation for a person to register as a British citizen, this will depend on the requirements for registration.</p><p>If the enquiry relates to a specific case, I would encourage my honourable friend from Torbay to write to HM Passport Office to discuss how the matter can be resolved.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/10/2017 07:24:34 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster