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439538

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rights of Accused
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Home Secretary will discuss with the police whether a protocol should be agreed to rationalise and improve on the present system of names of persons interviewed by the police but not charged being made public on a case by case basis.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL4723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/12/2015 answer text <p>The decision to release the name or details of a suspect in an investigation is an operational one for the police to take.</p><p>The College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice (APP) ‘Guidance on ‘Relationships with the Media’, which was developed in full consultation with the police, makes clear that decisions on releasing the names of those who are arrested or suspected of a crime should be made on a case by case basis and that the police should not do so unless there are clearly identified circumstances to justify it, such as threat to life or the prevention or detection of crime. This guidance will be reviewed by the College early in the New Year.</p><p>It is the Government’s position that, in general, there should be a right to anonymity before the point of charge. However, there are circumstances where the police decide it is in the public interest that an arrested suspect should be named.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/12/2015 11:39:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

439546

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Homicide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under what powers the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was able to recommend the suspension of a police officer while a homicide investigation is carried out, and whether Her Majesty’s Government are aware of whether any consultations took place between the IPCC and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis beforehand.
tabling member printed	Baroness Harris of Richmond
uin	HL4731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/12/2015 answer text <p>The IPCC’s decision making processes are independent of the Government. As this is an ongoing IPCC criminal investigation, it would be inappropriate for the Home Office to comment further. This is a matter for the IPCC and the IPCC has indicated that it will respond to Baroness Harris directly. Interactions between the IPCC and police forces in respect of an investigation are a matter for those bodies.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/12/2015 11:39:12 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2505 label Biography information for Baroness Harris of Richmond

438488

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what new arrangements have been made in 2015, nationally, regionally, or locally, for police forces formally to share operational or support functions.
tabling member printed	Lord Condon
uin	HL4584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2015 answer text <p>Chief Constables and PCCs are best placed to consider whether and how their forces’ operational or support functions should be shared. The number of collaborations continues to increase, with at least 4 new alliances involving 9 forces announced in 2015.</p><p>Regional Organised Crime Units, the National Crime Agency and local law enforcement continue to develop specialist capabilities to tackle a range of threats, including serious and organised crime, child sexual abuse and cyber crime. The Government supports the current review by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners into where specialist policing capabilities best sit, and how they should be delivered, to provide a common basis for future collaboration decisions.</p><p>To continue to strengthen and improve mutual aid arrangements, the National Police Coordination Centre is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing to develop consistent national standards.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/12/2015 12:09:18 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

438498

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Afghanistan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) Afghan interpreters, and (2) members of their immediate families, have been relocated to the UK under (a) the <i>ex gratia</i> redundancy scheme, and (b) the intimidation policy.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL4594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2015 answer text <p>Up to the end of November, 230 Afghan locally engaged civilians along with 297 members of their families have been relocated to the UK under the ex gratia redundancy scheme.</p><p>No locally engaged civilians have been relocated to the UK under the current intimidation policy. One former staff member was relocated to the UK under a previous version of the policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/12/2015 13:45:45 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

437832

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
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 rate of allegations against a spouse of domestic violence or rape by women who have entered the UK on a spousal visa in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL4534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2015 answer text <p>Allegations of rape or domestic violence are a matter for individual police forces and not recorded in statistics relating to immigration control.</p><p>Information on grants of settlement due to domestic violence after leave to remain granted as a spouse, is given in the link below, table se_04, Immigration Statistics July-September 2015) and are available from the library of the House: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/list-of-tables#settlement</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/12/2015 12:03:30 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed

436972

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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 how many overseas wives have joined their families in the UK between January 2014 and December 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL4438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>From January 2014 to September 2015 there were 35,990* spousal visas issued to females. We are not able to provide figures from October to December 2015 as visa figures for this period have not yet been published.</p><p>*Figure rounded to the nearest 5.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/12/2015 12:46:27 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed

436973

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Asians
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 incidence of domestic violence and rape against wives from Asia, and whether in making that assessment they have identified any trend.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL4439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>This government is committed to tackling violence against women and girls. We want victims to have the confidence to report these crimes, knowing they will get the support they need and that everything will be done to bring offenders to justice.</p><p>The 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates that 6.1% of adults aged 16 to 59 experienced any form of domestic abuse in the last year, down from 8.9% in the 2004/05 survey. While the latest estimate is not statistically significantly different from recent years, it is the lowest since these questions were first asked in 2004/05.</p><p>The 2014/15 CSEW also estimates that 0.3% of adults aged 16 to 59 had been a victim of rape (including attempts) in the last year. Due to the low number of respondents to the survey that have been a victim of this crime, it is not possible to say whether this estimate differs from surveys conducted in other years. However, prevalence of less serious sexual assault has fallen from 2.3% in the 2004/05 CSEW to 1.5% in the 2014/15 survey.</p><p>Data from the CSEW cannot be disaggregated by ethnicity, nor by the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4440 question first answered 22/12/2015 15:25:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed

436974

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Rape
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 changes in the rates of incidence of domestic violence and rape between 2005 and 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Ahmed
uin	HL4440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>This government is committed to tackling violence against women and girls. We want victims to have the confidence to report these crimes, knowing they will get the support they need and that everything will be done to bring offenders to justice.</p><p>The 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates that 6.1% of adults aged 16 to 59 experienced any form of domestic abuse in the last year, down from 8.9% in the 2004/05 survey. While the latest estimate is not statistically significantly different from recent years, it is the lowest since these questions were first asked in 2004/05.</p><p>The 2014/15 CSEW also estimates that 0.3% of adults aged 16 to 59 had been a victim of rape (including attempts) in the last year. Due to the low number of respondents to the survey that have been a victim of this crime, it is not possible to say whether this estimate differs from surveys conducted in other years. However, prevalence of less serious sexual assault has fallen from 2.3% in the 2004/05 CSEW to 1.5% in the 2014/15 survey.</p><p>Data from the CSEW cannot be disaggregated by ethnicity, nor by the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL4439 question first answered 22/12/2015 15:25:31 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3470 label Biography information for Lord Ahmed

436997

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
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 8 December (HL4152), how many refugees have applied for family reunion in Britain (1) from France, and (2) from other countries, since 1 January 2013; and how much of the funding provided by the UK under the Joint Declaration of 20 August has so far been (1) spent, and (2) committed to be spent.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>For the period January 2013 to September 2015, internal management information (not quality assured to National Statistics standards) indicates there were 11 entry clearance visa family reunion applications made from France and 17,292 from other countries.</p><p>Under the Joint Declaration of 20 August 2015, the UK has committed to providing €5 million (£3.6 million) per year for two years to help manage the migrant population in Calais by providing support and facilities elsewhere in France, the first of these two payments is currently being processed. This is in addition to €750,000 (£530,000) which has been paid to fund a project to identify and protect vulnerable people in the camps in Calais.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/12/2015 12:23:03 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

437004

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what input businesses make to the national strategy of the National Crime Agency.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL4470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency's (NCA’s) Annual Plan sets out its priorities and how it plans to exercise its functions in leading the fight to cut serious and organised crime. The NCA also produces on behalf of UK law enforcement the National Strategic Assessment (NSA) which draws together a single picture of the threat from serious and organised crime and is produced in consultation with a broad range of partners.</p><p>In discharging its functions, the NCA maintains close, collaborative and productive relationships with the police and other law enforcement agencies, Police and Crime Commissioners, the intelligence and security agencies, government departments (in particular with the Home Office), local government and the private and voluntary sectors, and Devolved Administrations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/12/2015 17:22:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark