Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the Government's counter-disinformation strategy.
Answered by Ben Wallace
I regularly discuss the Government’s counter-disinformation strategy with Ministerial colleagues as part of routine cross-Government meetings.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2020 to Question 8948 on Tigray: Humanitarian Situation, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
Year | Total number extradited | Total number extradited for non-violent offences | Total number extradited for violent offences |
2018 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2023* | 3 | 1 | 2 |
* Figures until 24 February 2023
For the above table, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
These figures provide updates on previously published statistics for 2018. All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 4 July 2019 to Question 271379 on Extradition: USA, how many people were extradited from the UK to the United States for non-violent crimes in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
Year | Total number extradited | Total number extradited for non-violent offences | Total number extradited for violent offences |
2018 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
2019 | 13 | 9 | 4 |
2020 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
2021 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
2022 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
2023* | 1 | 1 | 0 |
* Figures until 23 February 2023
For the above two tables, we have taken non-violent offences to include:
These figures provide updates on previously published statistics for 2018 (table 1) and for 2018 and 2019 (table 2). All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the UK to the US for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
To provide this information in the requested breakdown could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the US to the UK for (a) violent and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
To provide this information in the requested breakdown could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been extradited from the (a) UK to the US and (b) US to the UK in each year since 2003.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Home Office’s response to Question 27510.
The table below provides a breakdown of extraditions between the UK and the US between 2022 and 2023 (Feb).
Year | UK to US | US to UK |
2022 | 16 | 2 |
2023* | 1 | 3 |
* Figures until 22 February 2023.
All figures are from local management information and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Minister or official authorised the 77th Brigade to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of its work.
Answered by James Heappey
77th Brigade was created in 2015 and conducts information operations, including information activity and outreach, across a range of disciplines. This includes collecting, creating, and disseminating digital and wider media content in support of designated tasks. Like many Armed Forces units, 77th Brigade supported the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic and provided support to the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, who were working to counter disinformation.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the confidence intervals are for the (a) Office for Budget Responsibility's and (b) Bank of England's economic forecasts.
Answered by John Glen - Shadow Paymaster General
The OBR is widely recognised as providing independent, credible and high-quality analysis and the OECD has described the OBR as a “model independent fiscal institution”.
The OBR is also required by legislation to annually evaluate its forecasts in a Forecast Evaluation Report (link). The OBR also began to publish fan charts demonstrating the confidence intervals around its forecasts for key fiscal metrics in the October 2021 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (link).
The Bank of England’s forecasting capability was reviewed by David Stockton in 2012 (link) and he found that “fundamentally, the forecast process and the associated forecasting tools employed by the Bank in support of its monetary policy decision making are sound.” It was reviewed again by the Bank’s Independent Evaluating Office in 2015 (link). The Bank also publishes confidence intervals summarising the Monetary Policy Committee’s collective judgement of the uncertainty around the forecasts for GDP, unemployment, and CPI inflation, in the Monetary Policy Report (link).
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister or official authorised the Rapid Response Unit to collect of data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of that unit's work.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Rapid Response Unit was launched, initially as a six-month pilot in April 2018; its formation having received approval at Ministerial level in January 2018. During the pandemic, the Cabinet Office expanded the team to monitor disinformation about Covid. The Rapid Response Unit used only publicly available data, including material shared on social media platforms, to assess UK disinformation trends and narratives.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which Minister or official authorised the Government Information Cell to collect data related to public statements, social media and internet activity as part of its work.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The Government Information Cell (GIC) was established in February 2022 to support the UK's response to Russian disinformation relating to their invasion of Ukraine. Overall responsibility for the GIC lies with the Foreign Secretary.