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592904

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Italy: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 19 September (HL1756), how many British nationals they estimate are long-term residents in Italy; how many UK consular offices there are in Italy; when those consular offices ceased renewing passports for British nationals; how many renewals there were in the last year during which this service was provided; and how many emergency travel documents the Rome or Milan offices have issued in the past year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
	uin	HL2030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2016 answer text <ol><li>In 2015 the UN, in their '<em>Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin'</em> report, estimated that 64,986 British people were living in Italy.</li><li>As of October 2016 we have two permanent Consular Offices in Rome and Milan. These offices are supported by a network of five Honorary Consuls operating in Venice, Genoa, Catania (Sicily), Cagliari and Naples.</li><li>The processing of passport renewal applications from Italy was transferred to the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris in 2009<em>. </em>On 1 April 2011 an accord was signed between FCO and the Home Office to transfer responsibility for overseas passports to the Identity and Passport Service, now known as Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO). The transition of application processing from the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris to HMPO began in June 2013. This included all applications made from Italy. This process concluded in March 2014. As part of this process, all records were transferred to HMPO, and the FCO does not hold records of the numbers of passports issued overseas.</li><li>In 2015 we issued 1,261 emergency travel documents from our Consular offices in Italy. 83 of those emergency travel documents were issued because of expired passports.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/10/2016 16:03:53 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

166616

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	International Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 25 November (HL Deb, col 840), what assessment they have made of the legal implications of (1) the United Kingdom's invasion of Iraq, and (2) Russia's annexation of Ukraine.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL3207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>(1) The UK took military action in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) dating back to Resolution 678, and culminating in UNSCR 1441 which was passed unanimously on 8 November 2002. <br><br>(2) The UK does not, and will not, recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia. This action violated the UN Charter, was illegal under international law and breached a number of commitments Russia had made. It is for these reasons that Russia has subsequently been isolated in the Security Council and in the wider international community.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 10/12/2014 16:58:46 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

628244

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Syria: Armed Conflict
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) men, and (2) women, attended the talks between foreign ministers hosted in London by the Foreign Secretary on 16 October.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
	uin	HL2979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2016 answer text <p>24 male representatives and zero female representatives attended the Foreign Ministers meeting in London on 16 October. The participating organisations and countries included: EU, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, UK, and USA.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 15/11/2016 17:10:31 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

422145

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	EU Action: Qualified Majority Voting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what areas of policy were transferred from unanimity to qualified majority voting by the Lisbon Treaty; whether the United Kingdom has opt-outs from any of those areas; and, if so, from which areas.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL2765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>51 provisions were transferred from unanimity to qualified majority voting by the Lisbon Treaty. These were published in the Explanatory Memorandum on the Lisbon Treaty of 17 December 2007 as amended by a Written Ministerial Statement by the then Minister for Europe on 20 February 2008, Official Report, column 53WS. Of these, the following 16 provisions either did not apply to the UK due to its opt-outs or would only apply if the UK decided to exercise its justice and affairs opt-in:</p><p>1) Provisions enabling repeal of the aspects of this article related to state aids policy and the effect of the past division of Germany <br>2) Provisions enabling repeal of this Article (on transport policy as it affects areas of Germany affected by its past division) <br>3) Appointment of European Central Bank (ECB) executive board (UK opt-out) <br>4) Social security <br>5) Use of the euro <br>6) Measures relating to the Broad Economic Guidelines and excessive deficit procedure <br>7) Procedure for entry into the euro <br>8) Mechanism for peer review of Member States’ implementation of policies in this area <br>9) Border checks <br>10) Immigration and Frontier Controls <br>11) Judicial co-operation in Criminal Matters <br>12) Minimum rules for criminal offences and sanctions <br>13) Crime prevention <br>14) Eurojust <br>15) Police co-operation <br>16) Europol</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 30/10/2015 12:24:30 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

724615

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Iraq: Military Intervention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of casualties following the aerial bombardment by Turkish forces on 25 April in Iraq's Sinjar region; and what assessment they have made of the condition of those casualties.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL6857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</em></p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/04/2017 12:04:54 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

724629

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	North Africa: EU Immigration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in implementing the EU’s Khartoum Process in North Africa; and what resources have been committed to date.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
	uin	HL6871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</em></p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/04/2017 12:07:00 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

724637

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	China: Trade Promotion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the statement by the Prime Minister’s spokesman on 7 February that she would be visiting China later this year to discuss trade ties, what progress they have made in arranging that visit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Wei
	uin	HL6879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p><em>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</em></p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/04/2017 12:07:16 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	4145 label Biography information for Lord Wei

172698

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Gibraltar: Spain
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the apparent incursions by Spanish fishing vessels into British Gibraltar territorial water on 26 December 2014.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL4018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>A Spanish fishing vessel was present in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW) on 26 December 2014. However, Spanish fishing vessels do not constitute State vessels. Accordingly, our assessment is that this incident did not give rise to any violation of British sovereignty. In accordance with the Constitutional division of responsibilities between the British Government and Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar, the enforcement of laws relating to the activity of commercial and recreational vessels in BGTW is a matter for the authorities in Gibraltar.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 19/01/2015 15:43:03 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

677391

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Burma: Human Rights
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with members of (1) the EU, or (2) the Human Rights Council, regarding including the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry into the situation in Rakhine State, Burma, in the next Human Rights Council Resolution on Burma.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
	uin	HL4857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>A UN Commission of Inquiry can be authorised by the Security Council, the Human Rights Council or the UN Secretary General personally. Of the first two, we assess it is unlikely there would be sufficient international support for such a commission on the situation in Rakhine at this time. There are a number of countries that routinely oppose such commissions as a matter of principle, and have done so in the past. Nor do we assess there would be support for this among our likeminded partners, including the EU.</p><p>However, we continue to discuss human rights issues in Burma with our EU partners, both locally, in Rangoon and through the UK's Representation to the European Union in Brussels.</p><p>We support the Rakhine Advisory Commission led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which does have the support of Burma's democratically elected government and the international community. The Commission's interim recommendations are expected in the spring and its final recommendations in the summer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 03/02/2017 14:09:20 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

753902

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they have taken legal advice on whether the UK can revoke the triggering of Article 50.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL1047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>A clear majority of the electorate voted to leave the EU and we will respect the will of the British people. This was reinforced by the fact that in the last general election over eighty percent voted for parties committed to respecting the outcome of the referendum. There can be no attempts to remain inside the EU and no attempt to rejoin it. There is no precedent for a country triggering Article 50, let alone seeking to reverse such a decision. As a matter of firm policy, our notification will not be withdrawn - for the simple reason that people voted to leave. And we are determined to see through that instruction.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 31/07/2017 13:40:34 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners