Asked by: Andrew Snowden (Conservative - Fylde)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the (a) selling and (b) renting of user profiles to gig economy platforms is a criminal offence.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
If such actions are done to facilitate illegal working, yes.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in response to the question from the hon. Member for Bicester and Woodstock on 28 October 2024, Official Report, column 550, what her planned timeline is for (a) completing and (b) publishing the state threats review.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The government is committed to responding to state threat activity in all its forms and we regularly review the tools and powers available to us.
That is why the Home Secretary commissioned the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism and State Threats Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, to undertake a review to identify whether there are parts of our existing terrorism legislation which could usefully be emulated in the state threats context.
Following the publication of Mr Hall’s report on 19 May 2025, the Home Secretary committed to taking forward Mr Hall’s recommendations, including the creation of a new State Threats Proscription-like Tool. We will bring forward legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows
Asked by: Susan Murray (Liberal Democrat - Mid Dunbartonshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria and evidential thresholds her Department applied in reaching the decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000; and whether a formal assessment was undertaken to evaluate whether the group meets the legal definition of being concerned in terrorism.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
I refer the Hon Member to my statement in the House on 2 July when moving the relevant proscription order.
Asked by: Lord Polak (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to consult communities and experts on developing a long-term counter-extremism strategy aimed at building democratic and societal resilience, strengthening cohesion and reducing extremism and other societal threats.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office keeps all polices relating to national security and public safety under regular review, in consultation with a wide range of experts and stakeholders.
Asked by: Lord Young of Acton (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have been referred to Prevent because they are cultural nationalists since 1 January 2024.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office routinely publishes information on the number of individuals referred to Prevent by type of concern in the table attached.
Referrals for the period April 2024 to March 2025 will be released later this year.
Asked by: Lord Mendelsohn (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is their formal definition of extremism; and how they share this definition with police, local authorities, schools and others in order to measure the scale of extremism in British society and provide clarity to those bodies about their responsibilities and powers to intervene.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The current definition of extremism, which was last reviewed by the previous government in March 2024, is openly available on gov.uk. The definition is designed to support and shape policy, not data collection or operational activity.
Asked by: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, following their proposal in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May to extend the standard qualifying period for settlement from five to 10 years, what consideration they have given to increasing awareness of children’s rights to British citizenship and the capacity of parents and carers to exercise these rights.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
We will be consulting on both the earned settlement and citizenship schemes later this year and further details on the proposed schemes will be provided at that time.
This will include ensuring children who have been in the UK for some time and discover they do not have status, are fully supported to regularise their status.
Asked by: Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how they are measuring their ambition to halve violence against women and girls in a decade; and whether this measure will include online digital violence such as image-based sexual abuse.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government’s mission to halve Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) within a decade will be underpinned by the upcoming VAWG Strategy. Our headline measure will be the prevalence of VAWG as reported through the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). This will be measured by a new combined measure which will provide one figure for those who have experienced domestic abuse, and/or sexual assault and/or stalking in the previous 12 months.
Our target to halve VAWG within a decade will be set against this headline prevalence measure. We will also use a suite of other sub-metrics that provide a more comprehensive picture of VAWG in society and measure the effectiveness of our interventions.
The strategy will be published shortly.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 4 June (HL7632), how many people who have been deported from the United Kingdom after (1) asylum application refusal, or (2) completion of a prison sentence, have returned to the UK (a) as illegal entrants in breach of their deportation arrangements, and (b) following completion of a sentence overseas, in the past year.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The requested data is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Young of Acton (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have taken the Prevent refresher awareness course.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
As of the 31 May 2025, the Prevent Refresher Awareness course has been completed 397,236 times. The total number of completions across the four Prevent duty training courses from August 2022 to the end of May 2025 is 2.3 million.
Prevent training products are regularly updated to ensure they reflect the latest threat from terrorism and their content is kept under continuous review.
By understanding the risk, as well as how to raise a concern, those under the Prevent duty play a key role in ensuring that people who are at risk of being radicalised can be diverted away from terrorism.