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757264

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date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sharia Law Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the independent inquiry into the application of Sharia Law in the United Kingdom to conclude; and when they expect the report to be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL1249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Professor Mona Siddiqui’s independent review into the application of Sharia law in England and Wales is expected to report to the Home Secretary in the coming months. The Government will consider the publication of the review and its response, once the review report has been submitted.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:39:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

757265

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sharia Law Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what has caused the delay in publishing the report of the independent inquiry into the application of Sharia Law in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL1250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s independent review into the application of Sharia law in England and Wales is not delayed. The review chair, Professor Mona Siddiqui, is expected to submit her review report in the coming months.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:40:04 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

757282

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 4 July (HL Deb, cols 788–9) and her Written Answer on 31 July (HL668), regarding rates of pay for work undertaken by immigration removal centre detainees, whether any of the work undertaken by those detainees was duplicated by staff or employees of (1) the Home Office, or (2) the Immigration Removal Centre; if so, what were the rates paid to those detainees for that work; and what is their assessment of why no savings or efficiencies have been realised by the Home Office or private service providers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hamwee
uin	HL1267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>It is not permitted contractually for private service providers to use the detainee paid work scheme to replace staffing obligations in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><p>None of the work undertaken by detainees on a voluntary basis in this scheme is duplicated by staff or employees of either the Home Office or the private service provider and there are no savings or efficiencies realised by the Home Office or private service providers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:53:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2652 label Biography information for Baroness Hamwee

757300

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Acids: Sales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to control the sale of dangerous acids.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL1285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>We are developing a set of voluntary commitments for retailers to restrict access to the most harmful corrosive products. We are currently discussing the commitments with the British Retail Consortium. We are also undertaking work to review the Poisons Act 1972 and how it controls the sale of particular acids and corrosive substances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:43:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

757301

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Farms: Theft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what actions they are planning to take to address the theft of equipment, vehicles and livestock from farms.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL1286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>It is for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, as operational leaders and elected local representatives, to decide how best to deploy resources to manage and respond to crime and local priorities, in rural and urban areas alike.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/09/2017 13:57:16 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

757305

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the recommendations of the report Refugees Welcome? by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees, what measures they have taken to improve the experience of successful asylum seekers.
tabling member printed	Lord McInnes of Kilwinning
uin	HL1290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>We are working to ensure that asylum seekers in Home Office accommodation who are granted refugee status are able to access the mainstream benefits system smoothly if they continue to need support to cover their living needs.</p><p>In particular, we have established a new process that provides additional support to refugees during their transition on to mainstream benefits. That support involves offering a prompt appointment with the Department for Work and Pensions’ “vulnerable persons” service, and further assistance to ensure they receive the first payment of any benefit they are entitled to before their Home Office support comes to an end.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:50:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4576 label Biography information for Lord McInnes of Kilwinning

757306

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what lessons have been learned from the integration of recent Syrian refugees, in particular in relation to the provision of (1) housing, (2) National Insurance numbers, and (3) support in finding employment; whether those lessons are being deployed to ensure effective integration and support for successful non-Syrian asylum seekers; and if so, how.
tabling member printed	Lord McInnes of Kilwinning
uin	HL1291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The ability to plan for the arrival in the UK of those refugees who have been resettled in this country because they are fleeing the conflict in Syria has meant that we are able to provide appropriate support upon arrival. This involves planning for their accommodation and providing caseworker support to access public services, including the service provided by DWP. A pilot to provide bespoke employment support is also in place. Additional funding has been made available by the Home Office and Department for Work and Pensions to provide increased levels of English for Speakers of Other Languages tuition, which will also significantly improve the chances of finding employment. We will evaluate the results of the programme, including the employment pilot, to see what lessons may be learnt.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 18/09/2017 13:51:51 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4576 label Biography information for Lord McInnes of Kilwinning

757326

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Personation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the implications for crime and security in the UK of reports that there are 500 occurrences of identity theft each day and what action, if any, they plan to take to reduce identity theft.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL1311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the harms caused by identity crime and the 2016 National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime sets out our assessment of the threats associated with identity crime.</p><p>Government are taking a number of steps to counter the increase in illegal activity around identity fraud including:</p><p>Action Fraud was established in 2014 and is the UK’s national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre. All frauds including identity thefts should be reported to them. The City of London Police is the national policing lead for fraud and works with Action Fraud using the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to combat identity thefts.</p><p>The Government is also concerned about the harms caused by identity crime and Action Fraud provides advice to individuals and businesses as well as support to victims.</p><p>Gov.uk Verify is a simple and secure way of verifying identity when accessing some government services online, reducing the risk of fraud no matter which service is being accessed. HMG plans to extend the Verify platform so that people have one single, common and safe way of verifying themselves to all parts of government by 2020. Government also plans to make this platform more widely available, so that people can safely verify their identity to access non-government services such as banking.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/09/2017 13:59:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

757327

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the composition of the Technical Advisory Panel established under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Paddick
uin	HL1312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>It is for the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Lord Justice Fulford, to establish the Technology Advisory Panel (TAP), decide upon its composition, and appoint its members. Lord Justice Fulford took over responsibility for the oversight of investigatory powers by public authorities on 1<sup>st</sup> September 2017 and will appoint members of the TAP in due course.</p><p>Lord Justice Fulford has said he would be happy to discuss the establishment of the TAP, the wider set-up of his office, and any other matters relating to his duties with interested Members of Parliament or Lords.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/09/2017 13:52:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4288 label Biography information for Lord Paddick

757328

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Sri Lanka
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of Sri Lanka's new Counter Terrorism Act, what assessment they have made of risks to Tamil returnees to Sri Lanka who have been refugees in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL1313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>To clarify, the UK does not return refugees to a country where they have a well-founded fear of persecution.</p><p>Given that Sri Lanka’s new Counter Terrorism proposals have yet to be passed into law, it is too early to evaluate how it will be used in practice or what, if anything, this means for Tamil returnees.</p><p>However, counter-terrorism legislation is not new to Sri Lanka. The Home Office and the courts have both considered this issue previously and concluded that the existence and use of such legislation does not create a risk to Tamil returnees in and of itself.</p><p>We continue to monitor the situation, and will consider how this law is used. Cases continue to be considered on their individual facts and merits. The Home Office’s guidance on this is available on the Gov.Uk website.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/09/2017 13:53:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten