Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, and if so, why, admission to the UK was given to radical clerics who have praised Mumtaz Qadri for killing Salmaan Taseer, the former Governor of the Punjab; and what assessment they have made of the comments of Haras Rafiq, Chief Executive of the Quilliam Foundation, that advocates of murder should not be given public platforms in the UK.

HM Government does not routinely comment on individual cases. All appli-cations are considered on their individual merits in line with the Immigration Rules.

We have robust policies in place to exclude those whose be-haviour is non-conducive to the public good in the UK.

Furthermore, the Counter-Extremism Strategy (2015) sets out our efforts to engage internationally to counter the flow of extremism to the UK, whether money, people or ideology; build international partnerships with all those opposed to extremism; and disrupt extremists from entering the UK. The Home Secretary has the power to exclude non-British nationals from the UK if he believes they represent a serious threat to our society