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Written Question
Defending Democracy Taskforce
Wednesday 14th February 2024

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the terms of reference for the Defending Democracy Taskforce, how many times the Minister for Security has met the engagement forum for elected representatives.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

There is no single engagement forum for the Defending Democracy Taskforce, which uses a number of channels for engaging elected representatives. As Taskforce Chair I jointly ran, with the Speakers of both Houses, roundtable events for representatives of the main parties in Summer 2023. Follow up roundtables are currently being planned, these take place alongside direct engagement with individual Parliamentarians on specific issues and engagement with local and devolved governments officials.


Written Question
Defending Democracy Taskforce
Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which civil society organisations the Defending Democracy Taskforce has held recent discussions.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

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.

Meetings of the Taskforce are complemented by private engagement with partners outside central government and Parliament, including civil society, on subjects relevant to the work of the Taskforce. There are no current plans to publish information relating to the stakeholder engagement conducted by the Taskforce.


Written Question
Hate Crime: LGBT+ People
Tuesday 4th July 2023

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many LGBT young people aged 16-25 have been victims of a hate crime in the last 12 months.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office does not hold the information requested.

The Home Office publishes information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police on an annual basis. This provides information on hate crimes, including sexual orientation and transgender identity hate crimes, but does not include the age of the victim for these strands. Information for 2021/22 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022.


Written Question
Tony Cox
Friday 3rd March 2023

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to meet Tony Cox, a constituent of the hon. Member for Exeter.

Answered by Suella Braverman

I have written to Mr Cox providing an update on the response to concerns raised by him and the Hon. Member following the tragic death of his daughter Lorraine. I express my sympathies with Mr Cox, however, it would be inappropriate to meet him until after the conclusion of ongoing matters concerning Devon & Cornwall Police.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 20th December 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence from Mr Cox, a constituent of the hon. Member for Exeter, on his request for two meetings.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office responded on 19 December regarding setting up a meeting.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 20th December 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 2 December 2022 from the hon. Member for Exeter that enclosed a personal letter from his constituent Tony Cox.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office responded on 19 December regarding setting up a meeting.


Written Question
Visas: National Security
Friday 25th November 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been identified by the Department's review of Tier 1 investor visas as posing a security risk to the UK.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

We do not comment on matters of national security. As the Government has set out previously, we will provide a summary of the findings of the Tier 1 Investor historic review in due course.


Written Question
Visas: National Security
Friday 25th November 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department has made an assessment the impact of (a) Tier 1 and (b) Tier 2 visa schemes on national security.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

We do not comment on matters of national security. As the Government has set out previously, we will provide a summary of the findings of the Tier 1 Investor historic review in due course.


Written Question
Visas
Friday 18th November 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who entered the UK on a Tier 1 Investor Visa between 30 June 2008 and 6 April 2015 have been granted (a) indefinite leave to remain and (b) British citizenship.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office publishes latest data on visas at ‘Immigration statistics data tables, year ending June 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)’. Data on the number of Tier 1 Investor visas granted are published in tables at Data_Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visas applications and outcomes(opens in a new tab) dataset.


Written Question
Visas: National Security
Friday 18th November 2022

Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with Tier 1 Investor visas and who have been identified by the Government as a possible national security risk have been granted (a) indefinite leave to remain and (b) UK citizenship.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

We will not be commenting on matters of national security. As the Government has set out, we will provide a summary of the findings of the Tier 1 Investor historic review in due course.