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1109889

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/04/2019
	date	04/04/2019
	date tabled	04/04/2019
	ddp created	04/04/2019 21:17:54
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	ddp modified	04/04/2019 21:26:43 11/04/2019 12:11:10
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15081
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	11/04/2019 11:34:10
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to assess the likely level of personation that could occur at polling stations in the May 2019 local elections; and whether they will obtain from Electoral Registration Officers for those elections the number of tendered ballot papers issued in each local authority area.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15081
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15081
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Electoral Commission collate information on allegations of electoral fraud, including personation, at elections and in due course will publish a report covering all polls held in 2019.</p><p>The Government has no plans to ask Electoral Registration Officers to provide information on the number of tendered ballot papers issued in each local authority. Whilst details of tendered ballot papers issued are recorded at each polling station, numbers are not totalled and there is no requirement to record this number.</p>
	creator	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

1109876

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/04/2019
	date	04/04/2019
	date tabled	04/04/2019
	ddp created	04/04/2019 21:17:34
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	ddp modified	04/04/2019 21:26:15 10/04/2019 16:46:56
	hansard heading	Iran: Nuclear Power
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15068
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/04/2019 16:02:03
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they last discussed policy towards Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with the government of the United States.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15068
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15068
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>We have been clear with the US about our determination to preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action at all levels. The Foreign Secretary spoke to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 5 March regarding Iran, and the British Ambassador in Tehran was in Washington DC meeting a range of representatives in the US Administration during the week of 11 March.</p>
	creator	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1109875

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/04/2019
	date	04/04/2019
	date tabled	04/04/2019
	ddp created	04/04/2019 21:17:33
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	04/04/2019 21:26:13 10/04/2019 15:08:08
	hansard heading	Fracking
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15067
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/04/2019 14:27:39
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government who would be (1) financially, and (2) legally, responsible for the clean-up and remediation of fracking sites in the event that the operator becomes insolvent.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15067
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15067
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Under the conditions of their Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence, each licensee is responsible for wells drilled under their licence, including their safe plugging and abandonment. Before issuing licences, the Oil and Gas Authority considers the ability of operators to fulfil their responsibilities. In addition, as a matter of policy the Government will assess the financial status of companies wishing to carry out hydraulic fracturing operations, including their ability to fund decommissioning costs, before granting Hydraulic Fracturing Consent (HFC). Hydraulic Fracturing Consent will not be issued unless my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so. The Secretary of State is entitled to refuse HFC and/or, in certain circumstances, can impose conditions to provide additional protections.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant regulators, including the Oil and Gas Authority, Environment Agency, and Health &amp; Safety Executive, will not allow onshore operators to relinquish their licences and permits until they are satisfied that the terms of the relevant permits/licences have been met and that any assets have been safely plugged and abandoned.</p><p> </p><p>Planning permission conditions set by the relevant Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) generally include site restoration to return the land to its former state, as witnessed at Cuadrilla’s former Preese Hall site in Lancashire; the first hydraulically fractured well in the UK. In this case the well has been fully decommissioned in accordance with legislation. MPAs may also take financial security to cover decommissioning costs should they consider it necessary.</p><p> </p><p>If, despite the precautionary measures set out above, the operator was to become insolvent, the liability may fall to other appropriate parties, which may include other licensees or landowners.</p>
	creator	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1109870

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/04/2019
	date	04/04/2019
	date tabled	04/04/2019
	ddp created	04/04/2019 21:17:12
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	ddp modified	04/04/2019 21:26:04 10/04/2019 15:26:12
	hansard heading	Transplant Surgery: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15062
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	10/04/2019 14:46:03
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to discuss with UK NHS transplant services the feasibility of establishing a confidential register of those patients who come off the transplant waiting list because they have procured a transplant abroad; and if they do not have any such plans, why they do not.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15062
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15062
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government seeks to promote an ethical approach to organ donation through international conventions and agreements, such as the Council of Europe Convention on Organ Trafficking; the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, which encourages all countries to draw up legal and professional frameworks to govern organ donation and transplantation activities; and support to the World Health Organization in its work on organ transplantation.</p><p>The Government has no current plans to discuss the feasibility of establishing a confidential register of those patients who come off the transplant waiting list because they have received a transplant outside the United Kingdom. Recipients of transplants outside the UK may or may not come to the attention of NHS services, may have travelled to another country for legitimate reasons and may or may not provide details of the circumstances of any transplant.</p>
	creator	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

1109868

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/04/2019
	date	04/04/2019
	date tabled	04/04/2019
	ddp created	04/04/2019 21:17:09
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	ddp modified	04/04/2019 21:25:49 09/04/2019 15:57:07
	hansard heading	Closure Motions
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15060
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 15:21:52
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House how many times the closure motion has been moved in the House of Lords in the last 20 years; and on what dates.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Brabazon of Tara
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15060
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15060
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In the last 20 years the closure motion has been moved in the House of Lords 13 times: on 22 July 1999; 6 October 2003; 17 January 2011; 19 January 2011; 21 October 2011; 31 January 2014; 15 March 2019; and six times on 4 April 2019.</p>
	creator	3493 label Biography information for Lord Brabazon of Tara
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	3493 label Biography information for Lord Brabazon of Tara

1109589

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2019
	date	03/04/2019
	date tabled	03/04/2019
	ddp created	03/04/2019 22:04:58
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	03/04/2019 22:12:17 09/04/2019 17:04:05
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15058
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 16:29:15
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 18 February (HL13421), how many detainees of each recorded faith are held in immigration removal centres.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15058
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15058
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The current faith breakdown of full and part time chaplains in the immigration removal estate is 15 Christian (all denominations), 10 Muslim, 5 Hindu, 5 Sikh, 2 Jewish, 2 Jehovah’s Witnesses and 2 Buddhists. Chaplains of other faiths are accessible to detainees across the estate on request.</p><p>Information on detainees’ religious identification, where declared, is held by service providers on their own internal detainee management systems. Current data is available for the following IRCs; Brook House, Tinsley House, Yarl’s Wood and Morton Hall. This data shows that for those detainees who declared their religion, 233 identified as Christian (all denominations), 203 as Muslim, 83 as ‘other religion’, 33 as Buddhist, 29 as Sikh and 18 as Hindu. This is management information which has not been assured to the same standards as official statistics.</p>
	creator	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109588

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2019
	date	03/04/2019
	date tabled	03/04/2019
	ddp created	03/04/2019 22:04:56
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	03/04/2019 22:12:15 09/04/2019 17:04:06
	hansard heading	Immigration Removal Centres: Ministers of Religion
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15057
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 16:29:15
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many chaplains of each faith there are in immigration removal centres.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15057
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15057
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The current faith breakdown of full and part time chaplains in the immigration removal estate is 15 Christian (all denominations), 10 Muslim, 5 Hindu, 5 Sikh, 2 Jewish, 2 Jehovah’s Witnesses and 2 Buddhists. Chaplains of other faiths are accessible to detainees across the estate on request.</p><p>Information on detainees’ religious identification, where declared, is held by service providers on their own internal detainee management systems. Current data is available for the following IRCs; Brook House, Tinsley House, Yarl’s Wood and Morton Hall. This data shows that for those detainees who declared their religion, 233 identified as Christian (all denominations), 203 as Muslim, 83 as ‘other religion’, 33 as Buddhist, 29 as Sikh and 18 as Hindu. This is management information which has not been assured to the same standards as official statistics.</p>
	creator	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109587

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2019
	date	03/04/2019
	date tabled	03/04/2019
	ddp created	03/04/2019 22:04:44
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	03/04/2019 22:12:13 09/04/2019 17:04:14
	hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15056
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 16:26:02
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 18 February (HL13432), whether they have plans to aggregate the number of people claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15056
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15056
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated.</p><p>We do not have any plans to aggregate the number of people claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.</p>
	creator	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109586

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2019
	date	03/04/2019
	date tabled	03/04/2019
	ddp created	03/04/2019 22:04:42
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	03/04/2019 22:12:11 09/04/2019 17:04:09
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15055
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 16:28:47
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what data is collected and recorded from an asylum seekers' application for asylum.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15055
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15055
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Home Office collects and records a broad range of personal and case specific information via electronic systems which varies on a case to case basis depending on which route the application takes. <br>For example, we collect information to help establish identity, including biometrics.</p><p>Other non-electronic information may also be collected and stored by teams and this would be extremely difficult to quantify. For example, information about the reasons why the applicant is claiming asylum could be a record of oral testimony, written statements or other documentary they wish to submit in support of their claim.</p>
	creator	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109585

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2019
	date	03/04/2019
	date tabled	03/04/2019
	ddp created	03/04/2019 22:01:45
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	03/04/2019 22:12:09 09/04/2019 17:04:16
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15054
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	09/04/2019 16:25:50
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their process for considering an application for asylum.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL15054
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15054
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Asylum decision-makers carefully consider protection needs by assessing all available evidence provided by the claimant in the context of published country information.</p><p>They receive extensive training on considering asylum claims and must follow published Home Office policy guidance. Protection is normally granted where a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country of origin is established.</p><p>Those who are found not to need protection are refused but have a right of appeal to the independent courts. Once their appeals rights are exhausted they are required to leave the UK.</p>
	creator	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig