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166882

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	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 Bates on 20 November (HL2506), in respect of persons with a conviction for sex offences, violent conduct, and manslaughter or murder who have been permitted entry to the United Kingdom, (1) what public protection arrangements are instigated and whether they are a mandatory condition of entry, and (2) in respect of sex offences, what additional protection is in place for monitoring, sex-offender registering and prohibition from working with children and vulnerable adults, in line with arrangements for United Kingdom citizens convicted of the same offences.
	tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
	uin	HL3300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Foreign nationals who are convicted of such offences in the United Kingdom will be subject to the same monitoring and public protection arrangements as British nationals. Those sent to prison will also be considered for deportation. Furthermore, where a foreign national is in the United Kingdom and has been identified as having been convicted of a serious sexual or violent offence abroad, for example after a police check on foreign convictions following an arrest, the case will be referred to the Home Office to consider if deportation is appropriate.</p><p>Where previous foreign convictions for sexual offences are known, the police can apply to a magistrates’ court for a notification order which makes the individual subject to the same notification requirements as if they had been convicted in the UK (i.e. they are put on the “sex offenders’ register”). Similarly, where there exists a foreign conviction for specified violent offences, including murder and manslaughter, and where the individual poses a risk of serious violent harm to the public the police may apply for a violent offender order under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, as amended by section 119 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime &amp; Policing Act 2014.Serious sexual and violent offences committed overseas which are known to our authorities may be included on Disclosure and Barring Service disclosures. They may also be taken into account in deciding whether to bar an individual from working with children or vulnerable adults.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:24:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

167637

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Poland
	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 Bates on 19 November (HL2693), whether they regard the current level of immigration from Poland to the United Kingdom to be sustainable.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL3409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK is open to the brightest and best, but immigration must be controlled in the national interest. Across government, we are working hard to bring net migration down and address the factors which draw people to Britain for the wrong reasons. Our reforms have cut net migration from outside the EU by nearly a quarter since 2010 - close to levels not seen since the late 1990s.</p><p>We have introduced tough domestic reforms to ensure that our controls on accessing benefits and services, including the NHS and social housing, are amongst the tightest in Europe. These include measures to prevent EU job seekers and involuntarily unemployed EU workers from claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for longer than three months unless they have a genuine prospect of work. We have also introduced measures to ensure that new EU job seekers will be unable to access Jobseeker’s Allowance, or Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit, until they have been resident in the UK for three months.</p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to address immigration from the European Union. We have given specific consideration to the sustainability of levels of migration from Poland.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:11:41 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

168455

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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 help they are providing, or planning to provide, for asylum applicants who lose financial support when their initial application is rejected but who nevertheless wish to appeal or to submit a new application.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL3485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are supported by the Home Office if they are destitute under Section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. This support continues until all appeal rights have been exhausted and the asylum seeker is either granted leave or the asylum claim refused.</p><p>Failed asylum seekers are not usually entitled to support, but where there is a legal or practical obstacle that prevents them from leaving the United Kingdom support is provided under section 4 of the 1999 Act. This includes cases where the person has lodged further submissions which they have asked to be considered as fresh asylum claims.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3486 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:21:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

168456

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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 case for providing help for asylum seekers who lose financial support when their initial application is rejected but who wish to appeal or submit a new application in cases where they had no legal advice for their initial application.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL3486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are supported by the Home Office if they are destitute under Section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. This support continues until all appeal rights have been exhausted and the asylum seeker is either granted leave or the asylum claim refused.</p><p>Failed asylum seekers are not usually entitled to support, but where there is a legal or practical obstacle that prevents them from leaving the United Kingdom support is provided under section 4 of the 1999 Act. This includes cases where the person has lodged further submissions which they have asked to be considered as fresh asylum claims.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3485 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:21:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

168457

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Armed Conflict
	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 recommendations in the pamphlet "Western Foreign Fighters", recently published by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue; and in particular whether they will make use of the experience of Germany and Denmark in supporting families and coping with the needs of returning fighters.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL3487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>We actively and regularly engage with our European partners to share expertise and best practise in tackling extremism and radicalisation. These relationships are vital if we are to reduce this shared threat.</p><p>The importance of a balanced counter-terrorism strategy is clear and is laid out in the UK's CONTEST strategy, in which preventing terrorism is one of four essential pillars. Prevent aims to stop people becoming terrorists or extremists, or supporting terrorism. It deals with all kinds of terrorist threats to the UK, and includes non-violent extremism. Many of the recommendations in the report reflect initiatives already in place.</p><p>Prevent includes work to challenge extremist ideology (including disrupting extremist speakers and removing terrorist and extremist material online) and to intervene and stop people being radicalised. In the context of Syria it includes work to dissuade people from travelling to Syria and to intervene when they return.</p><p>We have seen a significant rise in referrals to the Channel programme, which provides tailored support to people identified as at risk of radicalisation. The Association of Chief Police Officers reported a 58% increase in the past year. Since April 2012 there have been over 2000 referrals. Hundreds of individuals have been offered support.</p><p>In the 2013/14 financial year Prevent local authority co-ordinators in our 30 Prevent priority areas worked with over 250 mosques, 50 faith groups and 70 community groups.</p><p>As referenced in the report, our Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit has a key role to play in taking down unlawful terrorist-related content. Since February 2010, the CTIRU has taken down more than 65,000 pieces of unlawful terrorist-related content which encourages or glorifies acts of terrorism. Over 46,000 of these have been removed since December 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:19:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

168466

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mordechai Kedar
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any attempt was made to prevent Professor Mordechai Kedar from entering the United Kingdom in order to speak to the Zionist Federation and Sussex Friends of Israel in Brighton on 8 December, in the light of his reported comments in respect of raping the wives and mothers of Hamas militants.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL3496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases. This is because the Home Office has obligations in law to protect this information.</p><p>The Government takes very seriously any suggestion that the presence of a particular person in this country might not be conducive to the public good.</p><p>When such cases are brought to our attention, the Home Office will investigate and take action where appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:22:13 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

169071

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Borders: Personal Records
	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 Taylor of Holbeach on 21 July (HL1039), whether they can now give a figure for the total cost to date of the e-Borders system, showing separately the cost awarded under the binding arbitration following the termination of the contract with Raytheon Systems Ltd.
	tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
	uin	HL3561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Further to the answer we provided to your earlier question of 10 July 2014, Official Report, column WA 212, I must advise you that I am still not in a position to provide the information you have requested. On 18 August the Home Secretary wrote to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee with an update on the Tribunal process. A copy of the letter is available in the Library of the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:25:20 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford

169077

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they consider to constitute "extremist" speech.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s definition of extremism, as set out in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. This includes calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas. The Home Office now has responsibility for a new counter-extremism strategy to tackle extremism in all its forms, which will be published next year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:13:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

169079

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Freedom of Expression
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend that under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill the Home Secretary will have the power to define what is and what is not acceptable speech in the United Kingdom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill will not give the Home Secretary the power to define what is or is not acceptable speech in the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2014 15:25:48 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

169080

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what date the Australian referrals of paedophile activity were made to the National Crime Agency.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL3570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) does not recognise the figure of 110 referrals highlighted in the question. As is the case with all referrals from law enforcement agencies, the intelligence is assessed by the NCA. Where appropriate, the referral is developed and disseminated to UK police forces.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL3571 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:20:15 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours