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1676483

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Offences against Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to make (1) the generation, and (2) the possession, of AI-generated sexual images and videos of children a punishable offence.
tabling member printed	Lord Bailey of Paddington
uin	HL966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. Our approach is underpinned by the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy which sets out firm commitments to drive action across the whole system.</p><p>The law in the UK is very clear with regards to production of child sexual abuse material. It is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material depicts a ‘real’ child or not. This prohibition also includes pseudo-imagery that may have been computer-generated.</p><p>Possession of indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children carries a maximum sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment. In addition, the offence of taking, making, distribution and possession with a view to distribution of any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child under 18 carries a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.</p><p>Home Office investment supports the National Crime Agency to use its unique capabilities to disrupt the highest harm offenders, safeguard children and remove the most horrific child sexual abuse material from the internet, including on the dark web.</p><p>The Home Office has recently rolled out new tools linked to our world-leading Child Abuse Image Database to support law enforcement to identify offenders and safeguard victims more quickly. This includes Fast Forensic Triage – a tool that enables police officers to identify known indecent images of children on suspects’ devices up to 100 times faster than before.</p><p>In October, the Home Office, in partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation, hosted an AI Safety Summit side event to discuss the growing threat of generative artificial intelligence in tackling online child sexual abuse. As part of the event, the Home Office issued a joint statement on tackling the proliferation of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, with 33 signatories, including tech companies such as Snapchat, TikTok and Stability AI.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 21/12/2023 15:14:45 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4987 label Biography information for Lord Bailey of Paddington

1676484

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Intimate Image Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to criminalise the (1) production, and (2) possession, of AI-generated deepfake sexual images and videos involving real individuals.
tabling member printed	Lord Bailey of Paddington
uin	HL967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is currently working with the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to review the extent to which existing criminal law provides coverage of AI-enabled offending and harmful behaviour, including the production and distribution of deepfake material using generative AI.</p><p>With respect to material concerning public figures, the new Online Safety Act introduces ‘false communications’ and ‘threatening communications’ offences that could cover the sending of deepfake content produced via AI, so long as the conditions are met. Other offences may also apply, such as impersonating a police officer.</p><p>If the review suggests alterations to the criminal law are required to clarify its application to AI-generated synthetic and manipulated material then amendments will be considered in the usual way.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL968 question first answered 21/12/2023 14:29:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4987 label Biography information for Lord Bailey of Paddington

1676485

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Intimate Image Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to (1) address, and (2) criminalise, the production of deepfake video and audio recordings involving public figures.
tabling member printed	Lord Bailey of Paddington
uin	HL968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is currently working with the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to review the extent to which existing criminal law provides coverage of AI-enabled offending and harmful behaviour, including the production and distribution of deepfake material using generative AI.</p><p>With respect to material concerning public figures, the new Online Safety Act introduces ‘false communications’ and ‘threatening communications’ offences that could cover the sending of deepfake content produced via AI, so long as the conditions are met. Other offences may also apply, such as impersonating a police officer.</p><p>If the review suggests alterations to the criminal law are required to clarify its application to AI-generated synthetic and manipulated material then amendments will be considered in the usual way.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL967 question first answered 21/12/2023 14:29:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4987 label Biography information for Lord Bailey of Paddington

1676490

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hillsborough Stadium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why it has taken six years for them to respond to the report The patronising disposition of unaccountable power: A report to ensure the pain and suffering of the Hillsborough families is not repeated (Session 2017–19, HC 511) on the Hillsborough disaster of 1989.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>For much of the time since Bishop James Jones’ report on the experiences of the Hillsborough families was published there were ongoing legal proceedings; it was clearly important that the Government did not take any action which might risk prejudicing the outcome of those proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>More recently, the Government has been undertaking work to go further to deliver on issues that are important to the families, and to make sure that similar injustices are not repeated.</p><p> </p><p>In publishing its response to Bishop James’ report on 6 December, ministers in both Houses apologised to the Hillsborough families on behalf of the Government for the length of time taken to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/12/2023 11:09:44 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1676496

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made a decision about whether the power under the Illegal Migration Act 2023 for the Home Office to accommodate children will come into force; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leicester
uin	HL979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Illegal Migration Act received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023. The Act seeks to ensure the only way to come to the UK for protection will be through safe and legal routes and will take power out of the hands of the criminal gangs and protect vulnerable people, including children.</p><p>Following the High Court ECPAT judgment and Supreme Court judgment on Rwanda, the Government is carefully reflecting on commencement of the powers in the Act, including those relating to the accommodation and transfer of unaccompanied children.</p><p>These powers have not yet been commenced and a decision will be made in due course. The Act does not change a local authority’s statutory obligations to children from the date of arrival and that the best place for an unaccompanied child is in the care of a local authority. This is something the Government was consistently clear about during the Illegal Migration Act’s passage through Parliament.</p><p>We are working at pace with Kent County Council, other government departments and local authorities across the UK to ensure suitable local authority placements are provided for unaccompanied asylum seeking children urgently and sustainably.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/12/2023 16:40:41 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4947 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leicester

1676497

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been received into Home Office accommodation each year since 2021 in (1) Leicester, and (2) Leicestershire.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leicester
uin	HL980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The wellbeing of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is our priority. We maintain that the best place for these children to be accommodated is within local authority care.</p><p>There are currently no unaccompanied children in hotels and there has never been unaccompanied asylum seeking hotels in Leicester. Nationally all unaccompanied children’s hotel accommodation has been empty since 18 November 2023. Of the 7 hotels which were operational in 2022, 6 of those were closed permanently on 30 November 2023.</p><p>We take the safety of those in our care seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in emergency interim hotels were safe and supported as we sought urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>The specific data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases that have not been quality assured.</p><p>The most recent published data can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cministerforcrimeandpolicing%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cf85bd4247929422158cc08dc02262860%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638387610212132362%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Fwar%2FaMFxDhCGKBRYwu4HeYh2mzhVtnrAvP9NZglKHk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL981 question first answered 21/12/2023 14:30:04 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4947 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leicester

1676498

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have gone missing from Home Office accommodation since 2021 in (1) Leicester, and (2) Leicestershire.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leicester
uin	HL981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The wellbeing of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is our priority. We maintain that the best place for these children to be accommodated is within local authority care.</p><p>There are currently no unaccompanied children in hotels and there has never been unaccompanied asylum seeking hotels in Leicester. Nationally all unaccompanied children’s hotel accommodation has been empty since 18 November 2023. Of the 7 hotels which were operational in 2022, 6 of those were closed permanently on 30 November 2023.</p><p>We take the safety of those in our care seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in emergency interim hotels were safe and supported as we sought urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>The specific data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases that have not been quality assured.</p><p>The most recent published data can be found at Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cministerforcrimeandpolicing%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cf85bd4247929422158cc08dc02262860%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638387610212132362%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Fwar%2FaMFxDhCGKBRYwu4HeYh2mzhVtnrAvP9NZglKHk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom grouped question UIN HL980 question first answered 21/12/2023 14:30:04 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4947 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leicester

1676102

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Relations: Kurds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the recent police operation at the Kurdish Community Centre in London on relations with that community.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blower
uin	HL907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>It is a fundamental principal of British Policing that the police are operationally independent of the government, and it is for them take decisions on enforcement action.</p><p>No assessment has been made at this time on community relations following the police operation at the Kurdish Community Centre in London.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/12/2023 11:09:09 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4724 label Biography information for Baroness Blower

1676125

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Armed Forces
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the recent proposed increase of the minimum income threshold to £38,700 for a family visa will apply to (1) serving members of the Brigade of Gurkhas, and (2) other serving foreign and commonwealth members of the armed forces.
tabling member printed	Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
uin	HL941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>It is the government’s intention to increase the minimum income required for British citizens and those settled in the UK (including serving members of HM Armed Forces who are exempt from immigration control and those applying for settlement upon discharge, at the same as their family member) who want their family members to join them. This reinforces that all those who want to work and live here must be able to support themselves, are contributing to the economy, and are not burdening the state.</p><p>The fees and policies that apply to the dependants of members of HM Armed Forces are closely aligned with those that apply to the dependants of other British citizens and settled persons under the standard family immigration rules, although they do recognise the unique position of Armed Forces family members.</p><p>Until the Immigration Rules are amended the MIR level remains the same. The Government will set out any transitional provisions associated with the increase in the minimum income requirement in due course. Any applications already submitted will be considered in line with the existing policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 21/12/2023 15:09:35 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton

1676131

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the compliance of the proposed £38,700 income requirement for applications to bring dependents to the UK with the Human Rights Act 1998.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The family Immigration Rules contain a provision for exceptional circumstances, including a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, where there would be unjustifiably harsh consequences for the applicant, their partner, a relevant child, or another family member if their application were to be refused.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/12/2023 12:37:16 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven