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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of Ramadan and Salman Abedi's relationship to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.

Asked by
Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 June 2022
Reference
19704
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 52 control orders issued under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 were related to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.

Asked by
Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 March 2022
Reference
145979
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the nature was of the contacts his Department had with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group during the war in Libya in 2011.

Asked by
Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 June 2021
Reference
14223
House
House of Commons

Motion to consider. Agreed to on division (9 votes to 4).

Lead member
Brandon Lewis
Answering member
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on delegated legislation; Delegated Legislation Committee proceedings
Committee
Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee
Date
31 October 2019
House
House of Commons

Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.

Lead member
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Answering member
Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on delegated legislation
Date
1 October 2019
Reference
799 cc1639-1641
House
House of Lords

My Lords, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group—LIFG—was established in the early 1990s and aimed to replace the Gaddafi regime with a hard-line Islamist theocracy. The group mounted a terrorist campaign inside Libya in the mid-1990s, including a 1996 attempt to assassinate Muammur Gaddafi, before becoming part of the wider global...

Member
Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
1 October 2019
Reference
799 cc1639-1640
House
House of Lords

My Lords, I thank the Minister for explaining the order, but I am a little confused. The Explanatory Memorandum accompanying the order states that in January 2019 an application was made to the Secretary of State for the deproscription of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group—the LIFG. It also says:

“The Proscription...

Member
Lord Paddick (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
1 October 2019
Reference
799 cc1640-1
House
House of Lords

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has largely raised all the points that I was going to refer to, so I will not detain the House for long. However, I was surprised about the application and just want to ask about a couple of further points.

First, what happens if...

Member
Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
1 October 2019
Reference
799 c1641
House
House of Lords

I thank both noble Lords for their questions. To the best of my knowledge, who made the application for deproscription is not in the public domain. The law states that applications can be made by proscribed organisations or an individual affected by the group being proscribed.

The noble Lord, Lord Paddick,...

Member
Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
1 October 2019
Reference
799 c1641
House
House of Lords
Laid by
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Department
Home Office
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
22 July 2019
Reference
SI 2019/1446; 2019/
House
House of Lords; House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Libyan nationals have been deported as a result of being suspected members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group since 2010.

Asked by
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 December 2018
Reference
198755
House
House of Commons