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date	27/04/2016
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	Royal Commonwealth Society: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the support provided by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) to events celebrating the Commonwealth, and its wider role in addressing challenging social issues, including early and forced child marriage, how much financial support has been provided to the RCS in each of the last five financial years, and how much will be provided in this and the next financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL8035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has contributed a total of £191,452 from 2011- 2015 to activities run by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) and the Council of Commonwealth Societies (CCS) for whom the RCS organises events. A breakdown of this sum is listed below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£60,720.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£48,619.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£21,706.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£22,000.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£38,407.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This year the FCO has again provided £20,000 towards the cost of the CCS Commonwealth Service event in Westminster Abbey.</p><p>Future funding requests for all Commonwealth organisations will be assessed on a case by case basis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 10/05/2016 14:23:13 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman

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date	27/04/2016
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	USA: Visas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of the US regarding the implementation of HR158 under the Visa Waiver Programme Improvement and Terrorist Prevention Act 2015, which prevents British nationals from travelling to the US if they may have visited Iran, Sudan, Iraq or Syria in the last five years; and what assessment they have made of whether that implementation is discriminatory.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL8037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>While US immigration processes are a matter for the US authorities, we have raised with the US administration the importance of clearly communicating changes to their immigration policy. The US Customs and Border Protection service has stated publicly that “the religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs of an international traveller are not determining factors about his/her admissibility into the US”. We remain in close contact with the US Embassy in order to avoid inconvenience to British nationals travelling to the US.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 10/05/2016 14:43:36 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed