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432402

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Care Homes: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many files from children's homes in London that were previously supervised by the Home Office remain unopened because they are marked "not for opening"; to which homes they relate; and how long those files have been closed.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL3916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Following a machinery of government change in the early 1970s, Home Office files relating to children’s home inspections were transferred to the Department for Health and Social Security. There are 49 files with ‘children’s home’ and ‘London’ in the catalogue description dating from 1931 onwards that are held at The National Archives. Details of the files, including whether they are closed, can be found through a search of The National Archives catalogue. Most are closed for 75 years from the date they went out of active use as they contain sensitive personal information where release would distress or endanger an individual who was a minor at the time the file was in use.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 04/12/2015 14:56:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

422095

registered interest
date	19/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Belfast
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each year since 1995, how many passports have been issued by the appropriate office in Belfast.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer to the attached table which provides by calendar year the volume of passport applications issued by the Belfast office from 2005 to 2014. Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold readily available data prior to 2005 and the cost of extracting this data would be disproportionate.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of passports processed by Belfast Office</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>359,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>336,306</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>364,821</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>341,898</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>370,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>364,688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>408,628</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>427,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>433,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>628,528</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/10/2015 14:09:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Number of passports processed by Belfast office.xlsx title Number of passports processed by Belfast office
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226890

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the tasks undertaken by the PRISM surveillance programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5678 HL5679 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:52 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226891

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what contact, if any, they have had with the government of the United States about the activities of the PRISM surveillance programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5677 HL5679 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:52 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

226893

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the judgment of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in the case of <i>Liberty and Others</i> of 6 February, whether the PRISM surveillance programme is supported in any way by Her Majesty's Government; if so, when the support started; and what form the support has taken.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>It has been the long standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal made clear in its judgment of 6 February that the regime for making requests for interception via the US National Security Agency's PRISM programme is lawful and human rights compliant.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5677 HL5678 question first answered 19/03/2015 11:58:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

224294

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under what circumstances a spouse of a United Kingdom citizen who is not a European Union citizen can take up residence with their partner in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government reformed the basis for family migration to the UK in July 2012, to prevent burdens on the taxpayer, promote integration and tackle abuse. The non-European Economic Area national spouse or partner of a British citizen can now join or remain with their sponsor here if they meet the relevant requirements of Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules. These include a financial requirement which generally means the sponsor must meet a minimum income threshold of £18,600 a year, and a requirement that the applicant can speak basic English.</p><p>The Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules is attached to my reply.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/03/2015 16:43:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Imm. Rules Appendix FM.pdf title Appendix FM
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

224295

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Northern Ireland has been included as a destination for asylum seeker dispersal; whether the National Asylum Support Service has undertaken research on the question of identifying Northern Ireland as a suitable area for dispersal; and, if so, what were the conclusions.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>Northern Ireland is not a designated dispersal area and UK Visas and Immigration has not undertaken any research into whether it could become one.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/03/2015 16:43:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

224233

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mohammed Emwazi
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Mohammed Emwazi is a British citizen; if so, when he was granted British nationality; if not, whether he has leave to enter and to remain indefinitely in the United Kingdom; and whether his current immigration and nationality status will be reviewed.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL5286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 09/03/2015 16:42:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174542

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Parliament: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are taking to ensure that any attempt by the United States authorities to access United Kingdom parliamentary data held on Microsoft servers in the Republic of Ireland will be made on a mutual legal assistance basis.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL4242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Storage of Parliamentary data is a matter for the House authorities. The application of the US's bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) with the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland in regard to data held on Microsoft servers is a matter for those countries.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4243 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:28:15 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

174543

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Parliament: Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are taking to ensure that any attempt by United States authorities to access United Kingdom parliamentary data held on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands will be made on a mutual legal assistance basis.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL4243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Storage of Parliamentary data is a matter for the House authorities. The application of the US's bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) with the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland in regard to data held on Microsoft servers is a matter for those countries.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4242 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:28:15 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird