The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
Oral Answers to Questions is a regularly scheduled appearance where the Secretary of State and junior minister will answer at the Dispatch Box questions from backbench MPs
Other Commons Chamber appearances can be:Westminster Hall debates are performed in response to backbench MPs or e-petitions asking for a Minister to address a detailed issue
Written Statements are made when a current event is not sufficiently significant to require an Oral Statement, but the House is required to be informed.
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| Jun. 08 | Oral Questions | Oral Answers to Questions |
| Jun. 08 | Topical Questions | Topical Questions |
| Jun. 29 | Urgent Questions | Covid-19: Support and Accommodation for Asylum Seekers |
| Jul. 02 | Written Statements | Biometrics Commissioner Annual Report |
| Mar. 18 | Westminster Hall | Organised Crime in Rural Areas |
| Jun. 17 | Adjournment Debate | Covid-19: Asylum Seeker Services in Glasgow |
| Title | Last Event | Next Event Date | Last Updated | |
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| Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020 | Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings) 8 June, 2020 | 24 Jun 2020, 5:38 p.m. | ||
| To provide for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State or a government department under, or in connection with, the Windrush Compensation Scheme. | ||||
| Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL] 2019-21 | Programme motion: House of Commons 22 June, 2020 | 3 Jul 2020, 8:01 p.m. | ||
| A bill to create a power of arrest, without warrant, for the purpose of extraditing people for serious offences | ||||
| Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2019-21 | 1st reading (Hansard): House of Lords 1 July, 2020 | 2 Jul 2020, 2:09 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to make provision to end rights to free movement of persons under retained EU law and to repeal other retained EU law relating to immigration; to confer power to modify retained direct EU legislation relating to social security co-ordination; and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Domestic Abuse Bill 2019-21 | Committee Debate: 12th sitting: House of Commons 17 June, 2020 (1) (2) |
Report stage: House of Commons 6 Jul 2020 |
3 Jul 2020, 8:55 p.m. | |
| To make provision in relation to domestic abuse; to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of a Domestic Abuse Commissioner; to prohibit cross-examination in person in family proceedings in certain circumstances; to make provision about certain violent or sexual offences, and offences involving other abusive behaviour, committed outside the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Fire Safety Bill 2019-21 | Committee Debate: 2nd sitting: House of Commons 25 June, 2020 (1) (2) | 30 Jun 2020, 10:32 a.m. | ||
| A Bill to make provision about the application of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 where a building contains two or more sets of domestic premises; and to confer power to amend that order in future for the purposes of changing the premises to which it applies. | ||||
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Laid 1 Jul 2020 In Force Not stated |
Home Office | Investigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 Parliamentary Status - Legislation | Made negative procedure |
| These Regulations amend Schedule 4 to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25). That Schedule sets out the public authorities, other than local authorities, who may exercise powers under Part 3 of that Act to obtain communications data, the statutory purposes for which the communications data may be obtained, the type of communications data which may be obtained, and the designated senior officers within those authorities who may authorise the obtaining of communications data internally in an urgent case. | |||
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Laid 15 Jun 2020 In Force Not stated |
Home Office | Immigration (Persons Designated under Sanctions Regulations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Parliamentary Status - Legislation | Draft affirmative procedure |
| These Regulations make provision in relation to immigration sanctions made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. | |||
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598,254 Petition Closed |
Ban all ISIS members from returning to UK Gov Responded - 27 Nov 2018 Debated on - 18 Mar 2019 |
6 May 2019 closed 1 year, 2 months ago |
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Ban all ISIS members from returning to the UK, remove their citizenship and passports |
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71,242 c. 659 added daily |
133,367 (Estimated) |
Give non-British citizens who are NHS workers automatic citizenship Sign this petition Gov Responded - 6 May 2020 Debated on - 25 Jun 2020 |
7 Oct 2020 closes in 3 months |
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Give NHS workers who are EU and other Nationals automatic UK citizenship if they stay and risk their own lives looking after the British people during the COVID crisis. |
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71,178 Petition Closed |
Introduce automatic approval of visit visas for families of British Citizens Gov Responded - 22 Jan 2018 Debated on - 9 Jul 2018 |
6 Jun 2018 closed 2 years ago |
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Family members of UK Citizens shouldn’t have to meet the same criteria as other applicants for a visit visa. Not being a citizen doesn’t make our parent, siblings, children or grandchildren any less a part of our family. The only requirement should be that a British relative sponsors them. |
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Home Office Select Committee Home Page
Select Committees are a formally established cross-party group of backbench MPs tasked with holding a Government department to account.
At any time there will be number of ongoing investigations into the work of the Department, or issues which fall within the oversight of the Department. Witnesses can be summoned from within the Government and outside to assist in these inquiries, and the Select Committee will occasionally publish formal reports of their findings.
| Date | Title | Type |
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| Jul. 03 | Domestic Abuse Bill 2020: letter from Minister Chalk to Jess Phillips MP on the second tranche of amendments | News and Communications |
| Jul. 03 | Domestic Abuse Bill 2020: letter from ministers to Jess Phillips MP on the first tranche of amendments | News and Communications |
| Jul. 03 | Migrant victims of domestic abuse review | Research and Statistics |
Written Questions are submitted by Members of Parliament and the House of Lords to receive information or updates from a Department.
Departments are required to respond in a timely fashion and provide a response or requested information. Written Questions can compel detailed and specific information to be produced, and are frequently used as the source of news stories about the work of a Department.
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| 3 Jul 2020, 1:39 p.m. | Telegram | Stephen Doughty |
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Question To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the (a) security of and (b) use of by extremist, far-right and extreme-right organisations the platform Telegram. Answer (James Brokenshire) The Government has been clear that tech companies need to work together and act more quickly to remove all forms of terrorist content from their platforms. We know that terrorists and extremists exploit a wide range of platforms to spread their views and to incite terrorist attacks, from mainstream platforms to secure messaging applications and anonymous forums. To tackle terrorism online, the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU), based in the Metropolitan Police, refers illegal terrorist content to companies for removal. Within the Home Office, we work closely with our international partners and engage with industry colleagues to discuss how platforms can best safeguard their users from terrorism, while also encouraging tech companies work together as one coordinated body through the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), to reduce the availability of terrorist content online. Details of meetings between Ministers and external bodies and organisations are provided through the usual quarterly returns published by the Cabinet Office. |
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