Question follow-through · 11577

National Security

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to track people working for hostile states in the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
31 Oct 2024
Answer
5 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to track people working for hostile states in the UK.

  2. 31 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not comment on the detail of security and intelligence issues.The government’s first duty is to protect our national security and keep our country safe. We keep potential threats to the UK under constant review a...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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