Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 15 December (HL3643), whether they will consider placing persons on their watchlist where they hold evidence of them undertaking, permitting or financing illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

It is long-standing policy not to discuss information held on watch lists as to do so would not be in the interests of border and national security.

The Government takes a range of measures to prevent foreign nationals from coming to, or remaining in, the UK where their presence is not conducive to the public good. This includes excluding individuals whose presence in the UK is considered not to be conducive to the public good. These decisions are made according to the individual circumstances of each case.