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886925

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Gender Recognition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce a self-declared gender recognition process to de-medicalise gender dysphoria as a mental health condition.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL7080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office is currently preparing the consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act, which will be published in due course. The responses to this consultation will be taken into account before deciding how to best reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004. <br> <br> Under the current Gender Recognition Act, trans people can change their legal gender by submitting a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, alongside other documentation including a second report from a medical professional, proof of having lived for at least two years in their acquired gender, and a statutory declaration that they intend to live in the acquired gender until death.</p><p>We are currently considering options for how we might we reform the current system, including examining how we could de-medicalise the legal process for changing gender.</p><p>The Gender Recognition Act does not, and will not, regulate the status of gender dysphoria as a mental health condition, as listed in medical handbooks. However, we are very clear that we do not consider being transgender to be a mental illness.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/05/2018 11:11:54 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

887329

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	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 extent to which the increase in February of the standard allowance for asylum seekers from £36.95 a week to £37.75 a week is sufficient to meet living costs.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL7126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The assessment is set out in a report published in March 2018, the report outlines the standard allowances for asylum seekers and for convienance the report is attached and can also be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-review-of-cash-allowance-paid-to-asylum-seekers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-review-of-cash-allowance-paid-to-asylum-seekers</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/05/2018 12:42:45 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Report_on_review_of_cash_allowance_paid_to_asylum_seekers_-_2017_-_final.._-v1.pdf title Report on Review of cash allowance-asylum 2017
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

886904

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 17 April (HL Deb, col 1070) concerning Operation Conifer, whether they have any responsibilities relating to the performance of police and crime commissioners; if so, what those responsibilities are; and if not, to whom police and crime commissioners are accountable.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laming
	uin	HL7063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are accountable to the public via the ballot box for ensuring the policing needs of local communities are met effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Police and Crime Panels have the appropriate powers, agreed by Parliament, to scrutinise the actions and decisions of PCCs and enable the public to hold them to account.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/05/2018 14:24:03 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming

889830

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Firearms
	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 19 April (HL6898), why it is not possible to give even an approximate timetable for the review into the legal position of police firearms officers and an indication of whether that review will be published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
	uin	HL7162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The review of the legal and procedural framework governing the police use of firearms will take account of relevant ongoing work including the new College of Policing post-incident guidelines for all death and serious injury cases.</p><p>The review is ongoing, further details will be available when it has concluded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/05/2018 14:25:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

887298

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Security
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost of security and policing for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bowness
	uin	HL7095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>In line with previous international summits, costs will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>No private contractors were employed to carry out functions that are the role and responsibility of the police.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL7096 question first answered 02/05/2018 14:24:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3496 label Biography information for Lord Bowness

887299

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Security
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether private contractors provided personnel to augment the number of Metropolitan Police Service officers policing the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting; and if so, how much was paid for those services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bowness
	uin	HL7096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>In line with previous international summits, costs will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>No private contractors were employed to carry out functions that are the role and responsibility of the police.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL7095 question first answered 02/05/2018 14:24:37 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	3496 label Biography information for Lord Bowness

886881

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Madeleine McCann
	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 21 December 2017 (HL4308), whether any request was made by the Metropolitan Police Service to extend the funding for Operation Grange beyond the end of March 2018; and if so, by how much, and over what period.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL7044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>An application from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for further Special Grant funding for Operation Grange for 01 April – 30 September 2018 has been received. This is for an amount similar to the £154,000 granted for the period of 01 October 2017 – 31 March 2018. The MPS has been briefed that its latest application will be granted.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 02/05/2018 14:40:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

886907

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	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	Arms Trade Treaty
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that countries that have signed but not ratified the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty comply fully with end-user certificate requirements in international arms sales.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL7065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>​As one of the original signatories, the UK is a strong advocate of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Her Majesty's Government actively and regularly encourages non-members to ratify or accede to the Treaty, and its member states to implement its provisions fully.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 02/05/2018 16:39:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

886910

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	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	Egypt: Torture
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have raised concerns with the government of Egypt over the use of torture by security officials in Egypt.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL7068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>​We are concerned about reports of torture and mistreatment in detention in Egypt, and continue to raise these issues with the Egyptian authorities. We have raised our concerns in public, through the UN Human Rights Council and through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Human Rights Priority Country reports. We have also raise our concerns in private, in meetings with Egyptian officials in London and Cairo. Our Ambassador in Cairo last raised human rights concerns with the Egyptian authorities on 18 April. The UK wants to see increased political progress and better protection of human rights in Egypt, including implementation of the rights guaranteed by Egypt's constitution.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 02/05/2018 11:04:59 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

886922

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	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	Russia: Chemical Weapons
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 10 April (HL6659), whether there is provision in the Chemical Weapons Convention to report incidents of illegal production or storage of banned chemical weapons; and if so, why did they not report their knowledge of Russian production and storage of Novichok.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL7078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, it is open to states to raise concerns related to compliance with the Convention. These may take the form of direct consultations, including bilaterally, procedures involving the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) or procedures within the framework of the United Nations. As our Permanent Representative to the OPCW briefed the Executive Council of the OPCW in The Hague on 18 April, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/opcw-executive-council-meeting-18-april-update-on-the-use-of-a-nerve-agent-in-salisbury" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/opcw-executive-council-meeting-18-april-update-on-the-use-of-a-nerve-agent-in-salisbury</a>, in 2000, under the umbrella of Article IX of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the UK asked a number of questions of Russia bilaterally, with a view to clarifying issues relating to its CWC declarations. The UK specifically asked Russia about the development of Novichok agents and whether Russia planned to include relevant information in its declarations to the OPCW. The Russian reply indicated Russia believed there was no information which was required to be declared.</p><p>The US has similarly approached Russia bilaterally on compliance issues on a number of occasions in 2002, 2003 and 2006, and have made clear in their 2018 Report to their Congress on Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments <a href="https://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/rpt/2018/280532.htm" target="_blank">https://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/rpt/2018/280532.htm</a> that “the United States does not believe Russia has declared all of its CW stockpile, all CWPFs [chemical weapons production facilities], and all of its CW development facilities” and that “the Russian Federation is in non-compliance with its obligations under the CWC”.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon attachment 1 file name 280774.pdf title US State Dept 2018 Report to Congress 2 file name OPCW.pdf title OPCW Executive Council Speeches question first answered 02/05/2018 16:55:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon