Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to introduce fines for social media companies which fail to remove extremist content from their platforms.
Answered by Sarah Newton
This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. In March 2017, the Home Secretary held a very positive meeting with industry to discuss online terrorist content. Subsequent to the roundtable, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft made a public commitment to look at options for establishing an industry-led forum focused on tackling terrorist and extremist content online.
This was formally announced by the companies on 26 June 2016. We continue to work closely with industry to come up with new, innovative ways for tackling terrorist use of the internet but, as the Prime Minister has made clear, we will also explore the possibility of creating legal requirements for communications service providers if they fail to take the necessary action to remove unacceptable content
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for the funding of anti-hate crime projects of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Government takes all hate crime seriously and published a Hate Crime Action Plan in July 2016 which sets out a comprehensive programme of work to drive forward action against hate crime.
We are currently assessing the impact of exiting the European Union on projects across Government, including any joint initiatives that we have with the European Union on hate crime.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to convene the ministerial seminar on hate on the internet referred to in Action Against Hate: The UK Government's plan for tackling hate crime, published in July 2016; and which Government departments will be consulted prior to that seminar on which victims' groups, stakeholders and industry representatives will be invited to attend.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The ministerial seminar on the internet referred to in Action Against Hate: The UK Government's plan for tackling hate crime, published in July 2016 will be held before the end of the year. Officials, from the Home Office, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Culture Media and Sports, Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice and criminal justice agencies are already consulting on the content and form of the proposed seminar.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the fire service in the event of a major fire at the waste site at Sandy Lane, Worksop.
Answered by Nick Hurd
It is the responsibility of individual fire and rescue authorities to assess and plan for potential risks at sites in their local area, as part of the process of the Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) for their area. The scale and costs of meeting these needs is therefore a matter for the local fire and rescue service.
The Chief Fire Officers Association have worked closely with Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH), and Environment Agency, to provide industry advice on minimising fire risk.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 25 January 2017 to Question 60970, whether there have been more (a) racist incidents and (b) banning orders than those referred to for 1 July 2015 to 10 July 2016.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office annually publishes statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders connected with regulated international and domestic football matches involving English and Welsh clubs and the national teams.
The football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales: season 2015 to 2016 is the most recent publication on this area. The statistics stated in answer of 25 January 2017 to Question 60970 are the most up to date statistics the Home Office holds.
This publication can be found at:
The Home Office intends to publish figures on football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales: season 2016 to 2017 later this year.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding for what period has been granted to the Community Security Trust to administer for the security of Jewish schools and other Jewish communal buildings.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Jewish Community Protective Security Grant makes funding available to all Jewish free, state and independent schools, colleges and nurseries to employ security guards during operating hours, and to improve security at many synagogues and other communal locations through the implementation of guarding and physical security measures. These funded security measures supplement existing site security arrangements and policing measures.
The Home Office has provided grant funding for the security of the Jewish community since 2015-16, with the Community Security Trust as the Grant Recipient. A breakdown of funding by financial year is:
2015-16 - £10.9m
2016-17 - £13.4m.
A further £13.4m has been allocated for this purpose for 2017-18.