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1167256

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been subject to an Unexplained Wealth Order since their inception, broken down by nationality; and what are the names of those people.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>15 unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) have been made on 4 cases. There are 3 orders in one case which relates to an Azerbaijan national, Zamira Hajiyeva. The other 3 cases concern a non EEA national,an Englishman and a Northern Irish woman.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1167257

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Rights
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been subject to proceedings under the (1) Criminal Finances Act 2017, and (2) Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, on the grounds of gross human rights abuse or violations, up to the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>There have been no proceedings under the provisions in the Criminal Finances Act 2017 relating to gross human rights abuses.</p><p>The Sanctions Act gives the UK powers to impose autonomous sanctions, however secondary legislation is required to establish individual sanctions regimes. Officials are currently working to design secondary legislation for a global human rights sanctions regime, which we have announced an intention to establish once we leave the EU. It is only once the secondary legislation is in force that we can impose sanctions on designated persons and announce those designations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1167261

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Death: Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Rooker on 27 June 2017 (HL Deb, cols 399–401), what current investigations, if any, are taking place in relation to the deaths of (1) Scot Young, (2) Boris Berezovsky, (3) Stephen Moss, (4) Badri Patarkatsishvili, (5) Stephen Curtis, (6) Yuri Golubev, (7) Paul Castle, (8) Robert Curtis, (9) Johnny Elichaoff, (10) Alexander Litvinenko, (11) Matthew Puncher, (12) Igor Ponomarev, (13) Daniel McGrory, (14) Gareth Williams, and (15) Alexander Perepilichnyy.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 17:59:43 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1167265

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to implement additional measures to detect people smuggling through UK ports, including the use of X-rays.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>At the juxtaposed controls and at ports around the country, Border Force officers use some of the most advanced detection technology available to find and stop migrants attempting to reach the UK illegally. We have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security. All freight vehicles entering the UK through the juxtaposed controls are screened for people being smuggled into the UK using a range of techniques. This includes using carbon dioxide detectors and motion sensors as well as sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on-board lorries.</p><p>We will continue to monitor closely displacement of the threat to other ports and routes into the UK and are prepared to shift more resources to UK ports, whilst working proactively with European law enforcement, including partners in France, Belgium and Holland, to target the organised crime networks behind people trafficking and illegal migration.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:59:38 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1167266

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Equal Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to ensure that companies publish their action plans for closing the gender pay gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Gender Pay Gap among all employees in the UK continues to decline, currently at a record low of 17.3%.</p><p> </p><p>This year, mandatory reporting regulations have seen over 10,000 employers report their gender pay gap for the second time, with around half of all employers in-scope of the regulations publishing action plans.</p><p> </p><p>To close the gap entirely we need a much wider cultural change, which can’t be imposed from above. We strongly encourage all employers to publish action plans, prompting discussions about the drivers of the pay gap in their organisations. To support employers, we have published advice on how to diagnose their gaps and develop an effective action plan, alongside evidence-based guidance on practical actions they can take to close the gap. We actively disseminate this guidance to employers throughout the year to ensure they have the information they need to create an action plan.</p><p> </p><p>This position is kept under review. If we do not think that employers are making enough progress, we will act.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:08:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1156569

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have refunded all of the fees for applications for settled status received before 1 April.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>We have processed refunds for all those charged a fee for the EU settlement scheme prior to 1<sup>st</sup> April 2019. Where circumstances have changed with regards to the recipient’s payment details these are being investigated on a case by case basis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:01:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1156316

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Fraud
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent online and digital fraud.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working with industry to close down the vulnerabilities that fraudsters exploit. This is a shared endeavour between government, regulators, law enforcement and the private sector, with the Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) leading work to tackle the fraud threat collectively.</p><p>On 14 September new rules under the second Payment Services Directive, known as Strong Customer Authentication, came into effect. These rules set out how banks and payment services providers verify their customers' identity or validate specific payment instructions. These measures will strengthen the authentication of electronic payments and help to limit Card Not Present fraud. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have agreed to give firms up to 18 months to fully implement the Strong Customer Authentication rules.</p><p>The industry-led Confirmation of Payee scheme is due to be introduced in early 2020. This scheme will make it harder for fraudsters to trick victims into sending money by impersonating a legitimate organisation. The scheme will check that names on accounts match those of the intended recipient and provide the customer with a warning where it does not.</p><p>The National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Active Cyber Defence (ACD) initiative aims to protect the UK from high-volume commodity attacks that affect people’s everyday lives. ACD seeks to protect people in the UK from the harm caused by online attacks. The NCSC has delivered advice and guidance to the UK economy and wider society, and tools like ACD are designed to stop many malicious emails and links from reaching their targets.</p><p>The Government continues to boost the law enforcement capabilities of the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), supported by dedicated funding for specialist cyber units in all 43 local forces.</p><p>The Government is also undertaking a Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) review led by Sir Craig Mackey QPM. The review will cover the powers, capabilities, governance and effectiveness of funding across the policing and law enforcement landscape, including the NCA and the wider justice system, and will make recommendations that should be delivered through the 2020 spending review to strengthen the SOC system.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 16:13:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1156329

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of those who have been held in immigration detention centres for more than 28 days in each of the last four years were granted (1) refugee status, and (2) the right to remain, in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Information on the length of detention, and reason for release from detention, is available in tables dt_06_q and dt_14,q of the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2019’. The published statistics show the number of people who were granted leave to remain (LTR) in the UK on leaving detention. However, this is not broken down by type of leave, nor will it include those who are released from detention for other reasons and subsequently granted LTR.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/11/2019 18:01:35 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name detention-jun-2019-tables (1).xlsx title Detention Tables - Immigration Stats - June 2019
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1152001

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electric Scooters: Road Traffic Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they intend to have with the police to enforce the prohibition against two-wheeled battery-operated scooters using pavements and highways.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Enforcement of road traffic law is an operational matter for individual Chief Officers of police in conjunction with local policing plans. We will continue to support the police to ensure they have the tools needed to enforce road traffic legisaltion including those relating to electric scooters.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 17:43:05 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1152010

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government who is responsible for ensuring that all those involved in the sale and purchase of guns are medically fit to hold a licence to be in control of firearms intended for sale; and how is the information about any concerns shared between different areas of jurisdiction.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The police are responsible for assessing the suitability of those who seek to be registered as a firearms dealer or to be issued with a firearm or shotgun certificate, including their medical suitability, to ensure the safety of the public. When applying to be registered as a firearms dealer, a person who is not already a firearm or shotgun certificate holder must provide details of their doctor and disclose any relevant physical or mental health conditions that they have been diagnosed with or treated for in the past for consideration by the police.</p><p>When seeking to be registered as a firearms dealer a person must apply to their local police force, who will consider the application and carry out the necessary checks to assess the applicant’s suitability.</p><p>A consultation on the introduction of statutory firearms guidance to the police, including in relation to the medical arrangements, closed on 17 September. The responses are being considered and the Government will publish a response in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 12:57:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff