Question follow-through · 23031

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 October 2024 to Question 7443 on Trade Unions: Subversion, whether the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme will regulate foreign actors seeking to (a) lobby and (b) influ

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 9 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jan 2025
Answer: 14 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 October 2024 to Question 7443 on Trade Unions: Subversion, whether the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme will regulate foreign actors seeking to (a) lobby and (b) influ
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The scheme’s political influence tier seeks to increase transparency of foreign power influence over the core aspects of the UK’s democracy, including elections, political party proceedings, parliamentarians and decisions of the Government, but is limited...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Tattooing: Young People

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Terrorism

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Prime Minister was made aware that Axel Rudakubana had (a) sought to manufacture ricin and (b) possessed an Al-Qaeda training manual.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Axel Rudakubana

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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