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968824

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	date	05/09/2018
	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	Iraq: Yazidis
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have held with other EU and US aid administrations, and the Iraqi Kurdish authorities, about the rehabilitation of Yazidi families in Sinjar and the possibility of the creation of a cemetery and memorial to the victims of genocide.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
	uin	HL10108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>​Officials from the Department for International Development (DFID) hold regular discussions with EU and US aid administrations regarding assisting Yezidi communities. DFID and Foreign and Commonwealth Office representatives regularly highlight the needs of minorities at senior levels within the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government. We recently discussed the issue with the Iraqi General Secretary of the Council of Ministers, who has created a team that is working with UN Development Programme on this issue. On 2 August the UK's Ambassador to Iraq attended a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Daesh atrocities against Yezidis in Sinjar, where he reiterated the importance of justice, respect and human rights.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/09/2018 14:42:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

968789

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Health Services: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have temporarily to return health powers from the Northern Ireland Assembly to Westminster to avoid any winter health crisis.
	tabling member printed	Lord Empey
	uin	HL10073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to temporarily return health powers to Westminster. As the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland stated in Parliament on 6 September, the Government intend to bring forward legislation to support Northern Ireland Departments to continue making decisions in the absence of Ministers where it is in the public interest to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 17/09/2018 14:48:06 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
	tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

968767

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	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	Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
	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 11 April 2017 (HL6378), what steps they are planning to take to secure Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's permanent release and return to the UK, in the light of continued concerns for her health and reports that she collapsed in prison.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bird
	uin	HL10051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>We remain very concerned about all our dual nationals detained in Iran. We continue to raise their cases with the Iranian Government at every opportunity, as the Minister for the Middle East did with the Deputy Foreign Minister in Tehran recently. We will make decisions in line with what we believe will produce the best outcomes in their cases. I refer the noble Lord to the Foreign Secretary’s comments in the House of Commons on 4 September.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/09/2018 14:42:40 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

968318

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff are based in his Department's Sheffield office at St Paul’s place.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	170896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy currently has approximately 300 staff working outside greater London.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy does not occupy St Paul’s Place Sheffield and has had no staff based at that location since July 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 17/09/2018 15:23:04 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

968195

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department holds information on the socio-economic background of people appointed to senior positions in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	170829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade does not currently hold any information on the socio-economic background of people appointed to senior positions within the Department.</p><p>The Civil Service is currently looking at the best way to start implementing the measures published earlier in June across Government Departments, to better understand the background of people appointed in senior positions.</p><p>The Government is committed to social mobility, and we are committed to creating an organisation in which everybody can thrive.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 17/09/2018 14:55:33 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft