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1167536

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	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 Williams of Trafford on 28 October (HL137), what plans they have specifically in relation to hate crime towards disabled people.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Hate Crime Action Plan 2016 included a number of commitments to</p><p>address disability hate crime. These commitments were:</p><ul><li>To look at current best practice examples in tackling disability hate crime and work with partner organisations and the police to promote safety for disabled people.</li><li>To continue to work with community groups to raise awareness of hate crime among disabled people and increasing the availability of third party reporting venues, in particular at locations and through services that are used by disabled people.</li><li>The police will lead work with partners and disabled people’s groups to develop resources targeted to raise awareness of hate crime among carers and families of disabled people to encourage reporting.</li><li>The National Policing Lead to assess proactive recording pilots to see if there is anything to be learned that will increase the recording of disability hate crime.</li></ul><p>In October 2018, the Government published a refresh of the Action Plan, which included the following further commitments on disability hate crime:</p><ul><li>Department for Transport committed, in the July 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy, to run a public awareness raising campaign to increase disability awareness amongst all transport passengers.</li><li>Continue to help the charity representing people with disfigurement, Changing Faces, in its work with social media companies.</li><li>The Department of Health and Social Care is leading a long-term study of the impact of integrated support for people with learning disabilities, including on the occurrence of disability hate crime.</li><li>Work with community groups to raise awareness of disability hate crime, and consider the best options for third party reporting centres for disabled people. We will work with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and others, to understand where these services already exist, and how best we can promote their availability.</li><li>Increase and broaden our engagement with stakeholders representing disabled people.</li><li>Draw from ongoing doctoral research into police responses to learning disability hate crime underway at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.</li></ul><p>The 2018 Hate Crime Action Plan refresh also includes a number of broader actions addressing all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. These include:</p><ul><li>Publication of the Online Harms White Paper, which sets out plans hold social media companies to greater account;</li><li>A review by the Law Commission into the coverage and approach of current hate crime legislation; and</li><li>A wide-ranging national hate crime communications campaign to publicly address hate crime and make clear that it is unacceptable to target people on the basis of their identity.</li></ul> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1167538

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the projected figures for UK net migration in the next five years; and what assessment they have made, or intend to make, of the cost to the UK of any fall in migration.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Information on projections of net migration under different scenarios, is published by the Office for National Statistics, as part of UK population projections. The Government’s immigration White Paper, the UK’s Future Skills-Based Immigration System, includes an economic appraisal of potential impacts of a reduction in EU work-related migration.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:57:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1167256

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order since their inception, broken down by nationality; and what are the names of those people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
	uin	HL524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>15 unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) have been made on 4 cases. There are 3 orders in one case which relates to an Azerbaijan national, Zamira Hajiyeva. The other 3 cases concern a non EEA national,an Englishman and a Northern Irish woman.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1167257

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Rights
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been subject to proceedings under the (1) Criminal Finances Act 2017, and (2) Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, on the grounds of gross human rights abuse or violations, up to the latest date for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
	uin	HL525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>There have been no proceedings under the provisions in the Criminal Finances Act 2017 relating to gross human rights abuses.</p><p>The Sanctions Act gives the UK powers to impose autonomous sanctions, however secondary legislation is required to establish individual sanctions regimes. Officials are currently working to design secondary legislation for a global human rights sanctions regime, which we have announced an intention to establish once we leave the EU. It is only once the secondary legislation is in force that we can impose sanctions on designated persons and announce those designations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1167265

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	People Smuggling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to implement additional measures to detect people smuggling through UK ports, including the use of X-rays.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>At the juxtaposed controls and at ports around the country, Border Force officers use some of the most advanced detection technology available to find and stop migrants attempting to reach the UK illegally. We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security. All freight vehicles entering the UK through the juxtaposed controls are screened for people being smuggled into the UK using a range of techniques. This includes using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on-board lorries.</p><p>We will continue to monitor closely displacement of the threat to other ports and routes into the UK and are prepared to shift more resources to UK ports, whilst working proactively with European law enforcement, including partners in France, Belgium and Holland, to target the organised crime networks behind people trafficking and illegal migration.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:59:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1156569

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have refunded all of the fees for applications for settled status received before 1 April.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>We have processed refunds for all those charged a fee for the EU settlement scheme prior to 1<sup>st</sup> April 2019. Where circumstances have changed with regards to the recipient’s payment details these are being investigated on a case by case basis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:01:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1156329

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	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 what percentage of those who have been held in immigration detention centres for more than 28 days in each of the last four years were granted (1) refugee status, and (2) the right to remain, in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Information on the length of detention, and reason for release from detention, is available in tables dt_06_q and dt_14,q of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2019’. The published statistics show the number of people who were granted leave to remain (LTR) in the UK on leaving detention. However, this is not broken down by type of leave, nor will it include those who are released from detention for other reasons and subsequently granted LTR.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/11/2019 18:01:35 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name detention-jun-2019-tables (1).xlsx title Detention Tables - Immigration Stats - June 2019
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1152010

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government who is responsible for ensuring that all those involved in the sale and purchase of guns are medically fit to hold a licence to be in control of firearms intended for sale; and how is the information about any concerns shared between different areas of jurisdiction.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
	uin	HL354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The police are responsible for assessing the suitability of those who seek to be registered as a firearms dealer or to be issued with a firearm or shotgun certificate, including their medical suitability, to ensure the safety of the public. When applying to be registered as a firearms dealer, a person who is not already a firearm or shotgun certificate holder must provide details of their doctor and disclose any relevant physical or mental health conditions that they have been diagnosed with or treated for in the past for consideration by the police.</p><p>When seeking to be registered as a firearms dealer a person must apply to their local police force, who will consider the application and carry out the necessary checks to assess the applicant’s suitability.</p><p>A consultation on the introduction of statutory firearms guidance to the police, including in relation to the medical arrangements, closed on 17 September. The responses are being considered and the Government will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:57:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

1152018

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud: Telephone Services
	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 average number of calls that the Action Fraud helpline receives daily.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robathan
	uin	HL362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:58:56 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	334 label Biography information for Lord Robathan

1152020

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Essex
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in response to the deaths of 39 people discovered in a Bulgarian container lorry on 23 October.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>As my Right Honourable Friend the Home Secretary set out in her statement of 28 October, all areas of Government have a role to play in strengthening our borders, eliminating the pull factors in this country and addressing the root causes to suppress demand for illegal migration.</p><p>The Government already has an illegal migration strategy in place, but as the tragic event in Essex has shown, there is much more to do.</p><p>We will be working across Government to strengthen our response to the migration crisis that led these victims to try to enter the United Kingdom and to confront the organised criminals who drive this abhorent practice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:47:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno