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Travel Restrictions: Israel

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN HL881, tabled on 29 June 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with European partners on the case for banning European Union entry to Israeli settlers convicted of violence.

Answered on

8 July 2015

There are currently no plans for European or domestic legislation to issue a blanket ban on Israeli settlers convicted of violence from entering the European Union.

The Home Office is responsible for entry clearance into the UK. Since 2005 the Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), has excluded a number of Jewish settlers from the UK on the basis of extremism.

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