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To ask the Prime Minister, how many honourable Members have been identified by the security services as a security risk. - Inc ref to 318 c402W and annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Asked by
Gordon Prentice (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 November 1998
Reference
319 c754W; 60433
House
House of Commons

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 9th December 1997, Official Report, columns 502-3, concerning advice from the security forces, if he will set out the circumstances in which it is deemed relevant that advice is made available to him; who is responsible for deeming it relevant....

Asked by
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 November 1998
Reference
319 c30-1W; 59004
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that files held by MI5 that are marked for destruction or might reasonably be thought to be so classified had they been assessed, are not used for vetting purposes.

Asked by
Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 November 1998
Reference
318 c496W; 57566
House
House of Commons

To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the value of reports from the security services on the potential security risks of candidates for ministerial positions; what opportunities are provided to persons so reported on to respond to those reports. - Inc ref to annual report of...

Asked by
Harry Cohen (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 November 1998
Reference
57472; 318 c402W
House
House of Commons

That this House urges the Secretary of State for Scotland to implement as soon as possible Lord Cullen's recommendations on the introduction of a national system to ensure that there are adequate checks on the suitability of youth leaders and workers.

Primary sponsor
Donald Gorrie (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
28 October 1998
Reference
1707
House
House of Commons

That this House notes that the elections to Iran's Assembly of Experts have resulted in over 70 per cent. of the seats being won by candidates of the Association of Militant Clerics and their allies but that, as all candidates had first to be approved by a supervisory board before...

Primary sponsor
Ken Livingstone (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
28 October 1998
Reference
1713
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces currently charge local and health authorities for criminal record checks. - Inc ref to Data Protection Act 1984.

Asked by
Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 October 1998
Reference
318 c54W; 55700
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward proposals to strengthen the controls and procedures for vetting those employed and working directly or indirectly with children and young people. - Inc ref to 313 c304-5W, 4 June 1998.

Asked by
Roger Gale (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 October 1998
Reference
317 c932W; 55453
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will comment on the security vetting procedures for the selection of United Kingdom candidates for the European Community's senior staff; what level of staff are involved; and what political opinions on the European Union are held to...

Asked by
John Bercow (Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
31 July 1998
Reference
317 c684W; 53772
House
House of Commons

Statement on plans to tackle the issue of preventing unsuitable people from working with children and to protect young people from abuse by those in positions of trust following the debate on lowering the homosexual age of consent from 18 to 16, in another place, on 22 June HC Deb,...

Asked by
Lord Graham of Edmonton (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1998
Reference
592 c69-70WA; HL 2921
House
House of Lords

Statement on plans to tackle the issue of preventing unsuitable people from working with children and to protect young people from abuse by those in positions of trust following the debate on lowering the age of consent from 18 to 16 years on 22 June. - Includes ref to 22...

Asked by
Helen Clark (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 July 1998
Reference
51727; 316 c348W;316 c348-9W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister without Portfolio, how much time he has spent vetting articles by others prior to their publication in the press since 2nd May. - None.

Asked by
John Wilkinson (Conservative)
Answering body
Minister without Portfolio
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 July 1998
Reference
316 c160W; 50395;50394
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish the names of the special advisers attached to his Department; and if he will indicate whether each of them has been positively vetted. - (Holding answer 16 June 1998).

Asked by
David Wilshire (Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 June 1998
Reference
314 c381W; 46063
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will comment on the sub-contracting of the pastoral supervision role of the European Voluntary Service to third parties; and if he will list the agencies his Department has approved for this purpose.

Asked by
John Bercow (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education and Employment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 June 1998
Reference
45316; 314 c212W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list by nationality for each of the last five years, non-UK nationals who have been security cleared to (a) confidential, (b) secret and (c) top secret classifications. - Will write.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 June 1998
Reference
314 c1-2W; 45092
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many defence projects for which foreign nationals have been cleared have then been reclassified to a higher security classification in each of the last five years.

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 June 1998
Reference
313 c638W; 45093
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) teachers and (b) care staff are currently under investigation for retrospective allegations of sexual abuse of former pupils. - Including ref to 'People Like Us'.

Asked by
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 May 1998
Reference
312 c451W; 41132
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what account her Department takes of criminal records consisting solely of homosexual activity engaged in prior to 1982, where such activity has been decriminalised, in determining (a) security clearance and (b) employment within the RUC; and what changes to regulations have...

Asked by
Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 May 1998
Reference
312 c235W; 41156
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what circumstances (a) non-criminal homosexual activity and (b) sexual orientation would debar a candidate from security clearance to become an RUC officer; and what changes in the regulations have occurred since 1994.

Asked by
Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 May 1998
Reference
312 c235W; 41157
House
House of Commons

That this House notes continuing public concern about the need for high quality, affordable and accessible childcare and the Government's intention to produce a national childcare strategy; believes that a national registration scheme for people who work with children and young people is essential to give parents confidence and security...

Primary sponsor
Jackie Ballard (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
28 April 1998
Reference
1262
House
House of Commons