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1140867

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
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, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the penalties incurred for (a) possession and (b) supply and production of synthetic cannabinoids.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	280381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled as Class B drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. There is a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both for possession of a Class B drug and 14 years’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both, for the supply and production of a Class B drug.</p><p>There was a total of 281 convictions for the principal offence of possession of synthetic cannabinoids in 2018, up from 71 convictions in 2017 and no convictions in 2016. For the principal offences of either supply, possession with intent to supply or production of synthetic cannabinoids there were 18 convictions in 2018, up from 4 convictions in 2017 and 4 convictions in 2016.</p><p>The Government has commissioned the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to provide an updated harms assessment on their previous reports on synthetic cannabinoids. The commission also seeks recommendations on whether the current classification under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 of synthetic cannabinoids is appropriate. The advice is due in summer 2020. The full commission has been published online on the gov.uk website. <br>The Government will await the ACMD’s further advice and recommendations</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/07/2019 16:00:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1140589

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting Uighur asylum seekers the automatic right to remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	279450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to report on how many applications for asylum from Chinese Uighurs it has received since 2015; and what proportion of those applications have been successful, as to obtain this information would require a manual trawl of records and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. We do, however, publish data on those who have been granted asylum in the UK, with main applicants broken down by country of nationality. The latest release, published 24th May 2019, can be found in tab as_01 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p><p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). <br>Where someone establishes a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country they are normally granted protection and are not expected to return there.</p><p>Our assessment of the situation for Uighurs in China is set out in the relevant country policy and information note, which is available on the Gov.uk website</p><p>All asylum and human rights claims from Chinese nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 279448 question first answered 24/07/2019 15:15:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1140161

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the findings of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s report, The Great Replacement: the violent consequences of mainstreamed extremism, published in July 2019 on the great replacement conspiracy theory.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	278941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>As the Home Secretary made clear in his speech on 19 July, the Government remains committed to tackling all forms of extremism, including Right-Wing Extremism. We draw on a range of sources to understand the extremism threat, including from the Home Office Extremism Analysis Unit and from reports by organisations such as the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.</p><p>In 2020 we will publish a new Counter Extremism Strategy setting out a comprehensive new approach to tackling all forms of extremism.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/07/2019 15:53:52 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1140375

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are that qualify an extension application as complex.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 (General) route closed to Leave to Remain extension applications on 6 April 2015. Therefore, no Tier 1 General extension applications were received in the last twelve months.</p><p><br>The data regarding exceeding the eight-week service standards in current application routes can be found using the link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-may-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-may-2019 </a></p><p><br>The statistics specific to service standards can be found on tab InC_02.</p><p>Historical data regarding service standards can be found via the following link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#previous-data-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#previous-data-releases</a></p><p>Complexity is identified on a case by case basis and will also vary depending on the application route. Therefore there is not an exhaustive list of the circumstances in which particular types of application might be deemed to be complex. Where an application is defined as non-straightforward, due to complexity, the customer will be written to within the normal processing time to explain why it will not be decided within the normal standard service, and to explain what will happen next.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 279030 279031 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:19:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140449

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many other countries have indicated that they will implement public registers of beneficial ownership apart from the UK and the Overseas Territories.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL17282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>Twelve countries have expressed an interest in signing up to the Beneficial Ownership Transparency Disclosure Principles which the UK launched at the Open Government Partnership Summit in May 2019. These commit countries to developing open and free to access registers of beneficial ownership information by 2023.</p><p>Under the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, EU Member States are required to implement publicly accessible registers of company beneficial ownership information. In June 2019 the governments of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man announced that they plan to implement their own publicly accessible registers of company beneficial ownership in line with EU norms.</p><p>In addition a growing number of countries already have public company beneficial ownership registers. This includes Denmark and Ukraine.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 23/07/2019 16:04:54 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1139795

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal on labour shortages.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	278505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the EU with a deal remains the Government’s top priority. This has not changed. However, a responsible government must plan for every eventuality, including a no deal scenario.</p><p>As laid out in the policy paper ‘Immigration from 31 October 2019, if there is no deal’ published on the 28 January 2019, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal there will be a transition period, once free movement has ended and before the UK’s new skills-based immigration system begins on 1 January 2021.</p><p>Arrangements for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens arriving after free movement ends, coming to visit, work or study, for the duration of less than three months, will not look any different.</p><p>To stay longer than three months during the transition period, newly arrived EU citizens will need to apply for European Temporary Leave to Remain, which lasts for a further 36 months. Those who want to stay in the UK beyond the granted 36 months will need to apply and qualify under the new skills-based immigration system, which will start to come into effect, deal or no deal, from 2021.</p><p>The future system will focus on skills and not nationality, welcoming talented and hardworking individuals who will support the UK’s dynamic economy, en-abling business and employers to continue to compete on the world stage.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/07/2019 15:10:36 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1140042

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Roads: Demonstrations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the legal provisions governing the balance between (1) the freedom of passage along public highways, and (2) the right to hold public demonstrations on public highways.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL17277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>Peaceful protest is a vital part of a democratic society. It is a long-standing tradition in this country that people are free to gather together and to demonstrate their views, provided that they do so within the law.</p><p>There is, of course, a balance to be struck. Protestors’ rights need to be balanced with the rights of others to go about their business. Rights to peaceful protest do not extend to unlawful activity and the police have powers to deal with any such acts.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/07/2019 16:45:10 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

1139316

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses his Department has received to the call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop workers which closed on 28 June.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	277825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>On 5 April the Home Office launched a call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop staff, which ran for 12 weeks and closed on 28 June.</p><p>We have received over 800 responses which are currently being reviewed. We will publish our response as swiftly as possible in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/07/2019 15:36:43 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1139434

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	al Qaeda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information he holds on the number of Al Qaeda (a) members and (b) supporters in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	277619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to disclose figures on the number of Al Qaeda affiliated individuals in the UK.</p><p>Membership and support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is an offence under sections 11 and 12 of the terrorism act 2000. The police and security services work day and night to keep the public safe, they are currently managing nearly 800 live investigations of around 3,000 individuals.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 22/07/2019 15:49:35 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

1139437

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information he holds on the number of Daesh (a) members and (b) supporters in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	277620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to disclose figures on the number of Da’esh affiliated individuals in the UK.</p><p>Membership and support for a proscribed terrorist organisation is an offence under sections 11 and 12 of the terrorism act 2000. The police and security services work day and night to keep the public safe, they are currently managing nearly 800 live investigations of around 3,000 individuals.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 22/07/2019 15:50:54 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan