Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any subsequent meetings took place between Ministers in her Department and Cheshire Police after 12 December 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The then Minister for Policing, Crime and fire met senior representatives of Cheshire Constabulary on 12 December 2024. The meeting covered the funding for Operation Hummingbird provided through the Police Special Grant, charging for special police services and foreign national offenders.
It is not customary to publish briefing papers prepared for, or notes of, Ministerial meetings, nor any follow up correspondence.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If she will publish any documents that were created for the then-Minister of State in preparation for her meeting with senior members of Cheshire police on 12 December 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The then Minister for Policing, Crime and fire met senior representatives of Cheshire Constabulary on 12 December 2024. The meeting covered the funding for Operation Hummingbird provided through the Police Special Grant, charging for special police services and foreign national offenders.
It is not customary to publish briefing papers prepared for, or notes of, Ministerial meetings, nor any follow up correspondence.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) nature and (b) purpose was of the meeting attended by the then-Minister of State on 12 December 2024 with senior members of Cheshire police.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The then Minister for Policing, Crime and fire met senior representatives of Cheshire Constabulary on 12 December 2024. The meeting covered the funding for Operation Hummingbird provided through the Police Special Grant, charging for special police services and foreign national offenders.
It is not customary to publish briefing papers prepared for, or notes of, Ministerial meetings, nor any follow up correspondence.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If she will publish correspondence exchanged by her Department with Cheshire Police following their meeting with the then-Minister of State on 12 December 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The then Minister for Policing, Crime and fire met senior representatives of Cheshire Constabulary on 12 December 2024. The meeting covered the funding for Operation Hummingbird provided through the Police Special Grant, charging for special police services and foreign national offenders.
It is not customary to publish briefing papers prepared for, or notes of, Ministerial meetings, nor any follow up correspondence.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) documents and (b) minutes created following the meeting of the then-Minister of State and Cheshire Police on 12 December 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The then Minister for Policing, Crime and fire met senior representatives of Cheshire Constabulary on 12 December 2024. The meeting covered the funding for Operation Hummingbird provided through the Police Special Grant, charging for special police services and foreign national offenders.
It is not customary to publish briefing papers prepared for, or notes of, Ministerial meetings, nor any follow up correspondence.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases and the relevant offences for cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division in each year between 2015 and 2025.
Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not publish official statistics. Official statistics relating to crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office and Office for National Statistics. Official statistics relating to criminal courts including caseload, timeliness, convictions, and sentencing outcomes are maintained by the Ministry of Justice. However, since January 2020, the CPS has published quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of the CPS’s ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance – available here: CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, if she will publish the number of cases and the relevant offences for cases prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division in each year between 2015 and 2025.
Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not publish official statistics. Official statistics relating to crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office and Office for National Statistics. Official statistics relating to criminal courts including caseload, timeliness, convictions, and sentencing outcomes are maintained by the Ministry of Justice. However, since January 2020, the CPS has published quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of the CPS’s ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance – available here: CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Ministry of Defence's response of 29 May 2024 under FOI2024/06992, if he will provide details of the 82 Northern Ireland Legacy claimants that received compensation payments between 2019/20 and 2023/24.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
I am withholding the information as it contains personal data which cannot be released.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 82701 on Troubles-related civil cases, whether he will provide a list of all 700 cases that remain in the judicial system.
Answered by Al Carns - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
I am withholding the information as it contains personal data which cannot be released.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of her Department's officials informed US authorities that they would not observe the interrogation of Omar al Bayoumi in 2001.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
It is the longstanding policy of successive UK Governments not to comment routinely either on individual cases or intelligence and security matters.
These questions relate to ongoing civil legal proceedings in the United States; this imposes legal and procedural limits on the information that can be disclosed at this stage. The Government is therefore unable to comment further while litigation remains active.