Temporary Exclusion Orders

(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK nationals she estimates are overseas and would potentially be subject to temporary exclusion orders.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 6th January 2015

More than 500 individuals of interest to the police and security services have travelled from the UK to Syria and the region since the start of the conflict.

The temporary exclusion power will be just one of a number of tools available for managing the threat posed by such individuals. The Secretary of State will be able to impose an order if she reasonably suspect that an individual is or
has been involved in terrorism-related activity while outside the UK, and considers that such an order is an appropriate tool to manage the threat he or she poses to the UK.

For operational security reasons, I cannot comment specifically on how many individuals might be subject to temporary exclusion orders. This will be a discretionary power which will be considered for use on a case by case basis.

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