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873006

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish the financial impact analysis conducted in respect of the pending decision on the printing of British passports.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL6688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>The financial information submitted by bidders for the new passport contract tender is commercially sensitive to the bidders and the Home Office. All bids were assessed against a rigorous and robust due diligence process, however, the Home Office have no plans to publish any financial analysis in relation to the bids.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/04/2018 13:10:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

873010

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK–France Migration Committee has met since the Sandhurst Treaty was agreed; and if so, what (1) decisions it has taken, and (2) action it has approved.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee most recently met on 27 March 2018. The Committee routinely discusses ongoing co-operation on migration and border security, including how agreed funding should be spent. This meeting followed a similar pattern with a particular focus on implementing elements of the Sandhurst Treaty such as improvements to port security and infrastructure, and measures to reduce the impact of migration on Northern French ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and France have a long-standing relationship on co-operating on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including transfers of eligible children under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A constructive official-level meeting relating specifically to the asylum elements of the Sandhurst Treaty took place on 9 February. Cooperation continues on all elements of the Treaty, and the UK has appointed a Liaison Officer to France who will deploy in the coming weeks to support this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will transfer 480 unaccompanied children from Europe to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers. On 22 February 2018, the Home Office published data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a>. 2018 Dublin data will be published in February 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6693 HL6694 HL6695 question first answered 11/04/2018 15:28:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables.xlsx title asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

873011

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: France
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether one or more British liaison officers have been appointed under Article 5 of the Sandhurst Treaty; if so, how those officers can be contacted; and whether a meeting of experts has been summoned for the application of Articles 2, 3 and 4 of that Treaty.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee most recently met on 27 March 2018. The Committee routinely discusses ongoing co-operation on migration and border security, including how agreed funding should be spent. This meeting followed a similar pattern with a particular focus on implementing elements of the Sandhurst Treaty such as improvements to port security and infrastructure, and measures to reduce the impact of migration on Northern French ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and France have a long-standing relationship on co-operating on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including transfers of eligible children under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A constructive official-level meeting relating specifically to the asylum elements of the Sandhurst Treaty took place on 9 February. Cooperation continues on all elements of the Treaty, and the UK has appointed a Liaison Officer to France who will deploy in the coming weeks to support this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will transfer 480 unaccompanied children from Europe to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers. On 22 February 2018, the Home Office published data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a>. 2018 Dublin data will be published in February 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6692 HL6694 HL6695 question first answered 11/04/2018 15:28:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables.xlsx title asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

873012

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: France
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Franco-British cooperation has improved since 1 February, in particular (1) concerning the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation, and (2) in cases of unaccompanied children seeking protection and asylum.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee most recently met on 27 March 2018. The Committee routinely discusses ongoing co-operation on migration and border security, including how agreed funding should be spent. This meeting followed a similar pattern with a particular focus on implementing elements of the Sandhurst Treaty such as improvements to port security and infrastructure, and measures to reduce the impact of migration on Northern French ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and France have a long-standing relationship on co-operating on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including transfers of eligible children under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A constructive official-level meeting relating specifically to the asylum elements of the Sandhurst Treaty took place on 9 February. Cooperation continues on all elements of the Treaty, and the UK has appointed a Liaison Officer to France who will deploy in the coming weeks to support this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will transfer 480 unaccompanied children from Europe to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers. On 22 February 2018, the Home Office published data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a>. 2018 Dublin data will be published in February 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6692 HL6693 HL6695 question first answered 11/04/2018 15:28:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables.xlsx title asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

873013

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: France
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied refugee children have been transferred to the UK under Articles 2 and 3 of the Sandhurst Treaty, since 1 February.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee most recently met on 27 March 2018. The Committee routinely discusses ongoing co-operation on migration and border security, including how agreed funding should be spent. This meeting followed a similar pattern with a particular focus on implementing elements of the Sandhurst Treaty such as improvements to port security and infrastructure, and measures to reduce the impact of migration on Northern French ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and France have a long-standing relationship on co-operating on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including transfers of eligible children under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A constructive official-level meeting relating specifically to the asylum elements of the Sandhurst Treaty took place on 9 February. Cooperation continues on all elements of the Treaty, and the UK has appointed a Liaison Officer to France who will deploy in the coming weeks to support this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will transfer 480 unaccompanied children from Europe to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers. On 22 February 2018, the Home Office published data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a>. 2018 Dublin data will be published in February 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6692 HL6693 HL6694 question first answered 11/04/2018 15:28:59 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables.xlsx title asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

873020

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drug Interventions Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the funding previously assigned to the Drug Interventions Programme to tackle drug-related offending by helping drug-using offenders to access treatment will be retained; and whether that funding will continue to be focused on the specific needs of that group of people.
tabling member printed	Lord Patel of Bradford
uin	HL6701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>Home Office funding previously assigned to the Drug Interventions Programme is now part of money allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners. This has been the case since 2012/ 2013 in London, and from 2013/ 2014 for the rest of England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to encourage use of drug testing on arrest to support police forces in monitoring new patterns around drugs and crime and provide an early opportunity to refer offenders into treatment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/04/2018 14:52:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3798 label Biography information for Lord Patel of Bradford

873035

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Mobile Phones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what national rules are in place concerning police officers accessing individuals' personal mobile phone data.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>Current legislation, principally provisions in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, allow data to be accessed from a mobile device when there are reasonable grounds to believe it contains evidence of an offence, but only then in adherence with data protection and human rights obligations.</p><p> </p><p>Data obtained and downloaded from a mobile device belonging to a person arrested, but not charged, may be retained for forensic examination or as evidential material in an ongoing criminal investigation. The data may only be retained for as long as is necessary.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to change this legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The police are operationally independent of the Home Office and the use of their powers to investigate crime, including operational guidance, is a matter for them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6716 HL6717 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:13:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

873036

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Mobile Phones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether police officers should be prevented from accessing individuals' personal mobile phone data without a search warrant.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>Current legislation, principally provisions in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, allow data to be accessed from a mobile device when there are reasonable grounds to believe it contains evidence of an offence, but only then in adherence with data protection and human rights obligations.</p><p> </p><p>Data obtained and downloaded from a mobile device belonging to a person arrested, but not charged, may be retained for forensic examination or as evidential material in an ongoing criminal investigation. The data may only be retained for as long as is necessary.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to change this legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The police are operationally independent of the Home Office and the use of their powers to investigate crime, including operational guidance, is a matter for them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6715 HL6717 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:13:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

873037

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Mobile Phones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the police can retain data downloaded from the mobile phones of those who have been arrested but not charged; and if so, why.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>Current legislation, principally provisions in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, allow data to be accessed from a mobile device when there are reasonable grounds to believe it contains evidence of an offence, but only then in adherence with data protection and human rights obligations.</p><p> </p><p>Data obtained and downloaded from a mobile device belonging to a person arrested, but not charged, may be retained for forensic examination or as evidential material in an ongoing criminal investigation. The data may only be retained for as long as is necessary.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to change this legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The police are operationally independent of the Home Office and the use of their powers to investigate crime, including operational guidance, is a matter for them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6715 HL6716 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:13:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

873048

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media: Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have held in the last year with Facebook and other social media companies about online grooming of children; and with what outcomes.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL6727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has been working closely with tech companies and tackling online grooming as a form of child sexual exploitation is a priority for the Home Secretary.</p><p> </p><p>To address the progress of what social media companies are doing about online grooming, the Home Secretary visited the US in February 2018 and November 2017 and met with social media companies to discuss what they are doing to prevent child sexual abuse material on their platforms.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Facebook are a member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance Board. The Board meets bi-annually, and most recently launched the Global Threat Assessment on 14<sup>th</sup> February 2018, highlighting the changing nature of the online threat to children.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/04/2018 14:54:10 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman