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516595

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, when he last discussed the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights with the Home Secretary.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I meet regularly with Ministerial colleagues, including the Home Secretary, to discuss important issues of common interest, including domestic and international human rights law. I am not able to provide information about any legal content of those discussions because, by longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have advised, or have not advised, and the content of their advice is not disclosed outside government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 35969 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:54:47 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516596

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I meet regularly with Ministerial colleagues, including the Home Secretary, to discuss important issues of common interest, including domestic and international human rights law. I am not able to provide information about any legal content of those discussions because, by longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have advised, or have not advised, and the content of their advice is not disclosed outside government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 35968 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:54:47 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516702

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the purpose was of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxsis stakeholder consultation in January 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>All specialised commissioning policy propositions go through a short period of stakeholder testing to check, amongst other things, whether all relevant evidence has been considered.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/05/2016 14:10:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516646

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Antarctica: Fisheries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to taking to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in Antarctica.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK is an active member of the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (the Commission) established under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The Commission is an integral part of the Antarctic Treaty System. The Commission has established robust monitoring and enforcement both at sea and through port state controls to eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated activities within the Convention Area.</p><p>HMS Protector patrols waters within the Convention Area and during 2015 undertook a circumnavigation of Antarctic waters, undertaking the Commission inspections in collaboration with Australian and New Zealand colleagues.</p><p>The UK undertook unprecedented action against illegal, unreported and unregulated practises during 2015 by tackling individuals and companies who derive economic benefit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, going beyond those who are directly engaged in such activities. British insurance companies now undertake checks against regional fisheries bodies’ illegal, unreported and unregulated lists and Interpol databases, before any vessel insurance is agreed.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 06/05/2016 13:31:30 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516649

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Antarctica: Fisheries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many instances of (a) illegal and (b) unregulated fishing have been recorded in Antarctic waters by the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>Over the last five years the UK has not identified any instances of illegal or unregulated fishing within the Convention Area. This is in part due to the reduction in the global illegal, unreported and unregulated fleet and the stringent measures put in place by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (the Commission). Where other States Parties have identified illegal, unreported and unregulated operations, the UK has worked within the Commission to take steps to combat those activities.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 06/05/2016 11:58:13 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516676

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Burma: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Burmese counterpart on the arrest and imprisonment of human rights activist U Gambira; and whether he has made an assessment of the living conditions of his imprisonment.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	36100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We are concerned by the arrest and imprisonment of U Gambira. Together with our international partners we have been following his case closely, including attending court hearings on his case. While we have not made a formal assessment of the living conditions of his imprisonment, we are aware that a number of local and international NGOs have expressed general concerns about the <br>conditions in Burmese prisons. The UK has consistently lobbied the Government of Burma to release all political prisoners.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 10/05/2016 14:38:29 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516645

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	HMS Protector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what missions HMS Protector is currently undertaking; and how many missions that ship has undertaken in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>HMS PROTECTOR, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship, provides a United Kingdom Sovereign presence in the British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime areas.</p><p>PROTECTOR is currently in the South Atlantic and is focussed on the provision of support to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including Antarctic Treaty inspections and station visits in support of the British Antarctic Survey, and survey activity, primarily to increase charting coverage of Antarctic shipping routes and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories. She recently successfully deployed unmanned aerial vehicles for the first time to assist with navigating through the Antarctic.</p><p>Since entering service in 2011, PROTECTOR has been deployed to the South Atlantic from December 2011 to May 2013; and from October 2013 to April 2015. In October 2015, she again deployed from the United Kingdom, arriving in the region this spring, having conducted a circumnavigation of the globe.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 09/05/2016 15:21:24 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West