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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/383708/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Face coverings can be worn in public places for a variety of legitimate reasons. In the context of a public order situation, where face coverings are being worn with the express intention of concealing identity, section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 enables a police officer in uniform to require any person to remove any item which the officer reasonably believes is being worn wholly or mainly for the purpose of concealing their identity. Section 60AA also enables a police officer in uniform to seize any item which they reasonably believe any person intends to use to conceal their identity.<\/p><p>A refusal to comply with a direction under this section of the Act is punishable by a fine of up to £1,000 and/or one month\u2019s imprisonment.<\/p><p>These powers only apply in the locality and for the period for which an authorisation under section 60 or section 60AA of the Act has been given by a police officer of the rank of inspector or above. An inspector\u2019s authorisation lasts for a maximum period of 24 hours, unless a police officer of the rank of superintendent or above authorises their use for a further 24 hours.<\/p><p>There are currently no plans to ban the use of masks in public order situations.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/383909/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Home Secretary received representations under the last Government setting out a compelling case on behalf of widows and widowers of police officers about their pension entitlement. In the Budget on 18 March, the Chancellor announced that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners of police officers who have died on duty in England and Wales will no longer lose their survivors\u2019 benefits in future if they remarry, form a civil partnership or cohabit. The Home Office will consult the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales (PABEW) shortly on proposals to implement this change. As policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Executive and Scottish Government respectively are responsible for the design and funding of police pensions in those parts of the United Kingdom.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations she has received on disparities between the level of pensions paid to the widows of police officers in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/383913", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/383913/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) operates on a full cost-recovery basis and is expected to make neither a surplus nor a loss. The DBS provides funding to local police forces to process disclosure applications that require local police intelligence checks. In the small proportion of cases where checks are not completed within normal performance standards, the DBS is taking steps to improve performance, working with the police and other parties.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2015 to Question 1466, what additional resources her Department plans to make available to ensure that all Disclosure and Barring Service checks are completed on time nationally in the next 12 months.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/308", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jim Cunningham"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381729", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381729/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>This Government is committed to ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (\u201cthe Istanbul Convention\u201d).<\/p><p>The UK already has some of the most robust protections in the world against violence towards women and we already comply with the vast majority of the articles in the Istanbul Convention. This includes those related to protecting women and girls, whatever type of violence or abuse they may have been subjected to and irrespective of their immigration status.<\/p><p>The UK Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps necessary.<\/p><p>Primary legislation will be needed to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before it can be ratified.<\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-17", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government when they expect to ratify the Istanbul Convention in order to protect women and girls who have suffered sexual violence regardless of their immigration status.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2018", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hylton"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hylton"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381732", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government how many separate incidents of detainees self-harming and requiring medical treatment occurred at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in 2013 and 2014 respectively.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2018", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hylton"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381810", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381810/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Home Office will not routinely use immigration powers to detain individuals who have been granted refugee status, though may need to do so in specific circumstances, for example if the refugee has subsequently been convicted of committing a crime and deportation action is being taken against them. We would not seek to deport a refugee in such circumstances if they still faced a real risk of death, persecution or torture.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on the detention of refugee women.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/478", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381819", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381819/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Foreign investment, including into our critical national infrastructure, is vital for our prosperity and this Government welcomes it. We must, though, consider carefully any risks that such investments may present, including to our national security. Prosperity and security are mutually reinforcing. The National Security Council undertakes this important task.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risks posed to UK national security by investments in critical national infrastructure by foreign (a) state-owned enterprises and (b) sovereign wealth funds; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/116", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's practice is in cases in which hon. Members send further documentary evidence to UK Visas and Immigration on visitor's applications which have been refused after meeting constituents who are visa sponsors; whether that body considers that evidence as part of the original application; whether it is her Department's policy to give advice in all such cases that a new application should be made; and if she will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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