Written Question
Friday 1st November 2019
Asked by:
Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on foreign agents' registration.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This is a thorough process to assess whether additional powers are required to clamp down on the activities of hostile states which threaten the UK, both here and overseas.
As part of this, we are considering like-minded international partners’ legislation to see whether the UK would benefit from adopting something similar.
This work is ongoing.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Public Services
"I am most grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, and I apologise for interrupting her leadership speech. I agree that her speech is unbelievable, but not in the same sense.
Every school in my patch is getting more money, over and above the rate of inflation. I am …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Public Services
"Is there therefore an argument for the legalisation of some drugs—not out of approval for them, but to regulate and tax them?..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Public Services
"It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Dame Louise Ellman), who makes a very passionate case for the public services in her constituency. I hope to do the same. Public services go to the heart of this debate and to the heart of my speech. …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Public Services
"I know of no such case, but what I do know is that the Island is the only significant population on an island in the UK that has neither a fixed link nor increased funding. I am not necessarily playing my constituency off against other isolated communities, but there are …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Apr 2019
Arrest of Julian Assange
"I understand that the potential extradition to the United States relates to the half a million leaked documents in the Chelsea Manning case. Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is potentially a more serious and disturbing case against Julian Assange in relation to his and WikiLeaks’ role in …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Shamima Begum and Other Cases
"The Secretary of State has mentioned figures relating to the last couple of months. He said that about 900 British citizens had been in the caliphate, of whom 400 had returned, 10% had been prosecuted and between 100 and 150 had died. That leaves about 300 people still out there. …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Feb 2019
Deprivation of Citizenship Status
"As somebody who served in the ISIS campaign, I am very aware of the difficulty of extraditing and prosecuting returning UK ISIS fighters. Does the Home Secretary agree that the priority is monitoring those 400-plus fighters who are back in the UK? Is he aware of how many of them …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Feb 2019
Police Grant Report
"I welcome the biggest rise in police funds since 2010, which is excellent news for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. However, will my right hon. Friend concede that, as a force, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight has been historically underfunded relative to its size? When he considers future …..."Bob Seely - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 20th December 2018
Asked by:
Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has allocated to programmes overseas that is not part of Official Development Assistance in each of the last three years; and how much such funding his Department plans to allocate in each of the next two years.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The government publishes the threshold which would need to be crossed in order for a written question to be responded.
To obtain the information requested would exceed the disproportinate cost threshold.