Monday, 11 January 2016
The Secretary of State was asked—
If she will ensure that the proposals in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill are limited to the police and security services.
What steps the Government are taking to prevent abuse of the immigration system.
What estimate she has made of the number of crimes committed online in 2014-15; and how many of those crimes were (a) recorded, (b) investigated and (c) resulted in a conviction.
What steps the Government are taking to stop firearms, illegal drugs and other contraband entering the UK.
What steps she is taking to promote co-operation between police services.
What her policy is on the inclusion of international students in net migration figures.
What recent progress she has made on reviewing the police funding formula.
Under what circumstances her Department permits the immigration of children to join relatives living in the UK.
How many visas were issued to overseas students to study in the UK in the last year for which figures are available.
What steps she is taking to reduce the administrative costs of policing.
What recent discussions she has had with the police on the police grant settlement.
What steps the Government have taken to tackle violence against women and girls.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State if he will make a statement on safety in prisons and secure training centres.
Before we start exchanges on the urgent question to the Secretary of State for International Development, I wish to record my thanks to the Secretary of State, who is here to answer the question....
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. At the risk of being accused of going from one extreme to the other, may I commend you—this sounds very oleaginous and creepy, I know—for the...
[Relevant Documents: Oral evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill on 18 November 2015, HC 618, and Proceedings of the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill on 24...
‘(1) The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is amended as follows. (2) In section 146(4) (homosexual acts as grounds for discharge from the armed forces etc), omit the words...
‘(1) From 11 April 2016 the Secretary of State has a duty to ensure that compensation due to former members of the Armed Forces who have contracted mesothelioma during the course of their...
Amendments made: 1, page 17, line 16, leave out “Sections 15 and 16 (Ministry of Defence fire-fighters)” and insert “The following”. This amendment and...
Amendments made: 3, page 17, line 32, leave out “section 16 (Ministry of Defence fire-fighters: minor amendments)” and insert “the following sections”....
Amendment made: 5, page 17, line 38, after “5(3),” insert “(Discharge of members of the armed forces: homosexual acts),”—(Mark Lancaster.) This...
I beg to move, That this House has considered local government funding for rural areas. I begin by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for selecting this motion for debate this evening and...
With the leave of the House, I propose to take motions 3 to 6 together. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) (No. 3) Order 2015 (S.I., 2015, No. 1929), dated 23 November 2015, a copy of which was laid before this House on 25 November, be approved.
That the draft Legal Services Act 2007 (Claims Management Complaints) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, which were laid before this House on 17 November, be approved.
That the draft Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Interception of Communications: Code of Practice) Order 2015, which was laid before this House on 4 November, be approved. That the draft...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Margot James.)
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