Freedom of Information Act
Policy Team
Customer Service
Improvement Directorate
UK Border Agency
Lunar House
40 Wel esley Road
11 Floor, Short Corridor
Croydon CR9 2BY
Mr Abdul Majeed
Web
www.ukba.homeoffice
By email: request-80029-
.gov.uk
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date : 5 August 2011
FOI ref: 19354
Dear Mr Majeed
Thank you for your e-mail of 14 July 2011 in which you ask for information on Sheikh
Raed Salah. You have specifically asked for a response to questions put forward by
Anas Sarwar MP to Damien Green MP.
Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
I have listed the questions below for your ease of reference:
1) On what grounds her Department issued an exclusion order
against Sheikh Raed Salah;
(2) When her Department notified the UK Border Agency of the
exclusion order served on Sheikh Raed Salah;
(3) When and where her Department served the exclusion order on
Sheikh Raed Salah;
(4) When her Department was informed of Sheikh Raed Salah's
presence in the UK;
(5) What contact her Department had with officials at the UK Border
Agency regarding Sheikh Raed Salah (a) before and (b) after his
arrest."
Response to Q.1
The Secretary of State has the power to exclude or deport individuals whose conduct
she considers non-conducive to the public good. This includes individuals whose
behaviour falls within the Government’s published unacceptable behaviours policy.
This policy applies to any non-UK national whether in the UK or abroad who uses
any means or medium including:
• writing, producing, publishing or distributing material;
• public speaking including preaching;
• running a website;
• using a position of responsibility such as a teacher, community or youth leader;
To express views which:
• foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs;
• seek to provoke others to terrorist acts;
• foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal
acts;
• foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.
The list is indicative and not exhaustive. Mr Raed Salah was excluded on the
grounds that his presence here would not be conducive to the public good The Home
Secretary considers that a number of comments made by Mr Raed Salah are
evidence of his engagement in unacceptable behaviour.
Response to Q.2
The UK Border Agency is an executive agency of the Home Office. I can confirm that
Mr Raed Salah was excluded from the UK on 23 June.
Response to Q.3
The exclusion decision was served on Mr Salah on 28 June 2011 in the UK.
Response to Q.4
UKBA was notified that Mr Salah was in the UK on 27 June 2011.
Response to Q.5
I am afraid that I am not able to comment further on the details of the case as we
have concluded that the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure
under section 40(2) of the FoI Act. This exempts personal data if disclosure would
breach any of the data protection principles Your request for personal information
has been considered in line with our obligations under the Freedom of Information
(FoI) Act. However, we have concluded that the information you have requested
regarding information on any contact the Home Office had with officials at the UK
Border Agency regarding Sheikh Raed Salah (a) before and (b) after his arrest
is exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) of the FoI Act.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal
review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to
the address below, quoting reference 19354. If you ask for an internal review, it
would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
Information Access Team
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request
wil be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response.
If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of
complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the
Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Mrs. Isra Hussain
Freedom of Information Team
UKBA