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105747

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters: Licensing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to extend the powers of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority under the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 in order to regulate gangmasters in sectors such as hand car washes.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Norwich
uin	HL2564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend the licensing remit of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to additional sectors such as hand car washes. Licensing can be an appropriate response to particular problems in particular sectors, but that does not mean it is appropriate in all cases. However the Government will keep the Gangmasters Licensing Authority’s remit under review.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:27:22 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3655 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Norwich

105758

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Armed Conflict
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 provides sufficient authority to prosecute British citizens who join with states or other entities making war in support of the enemies of the United Kingdom; and, if not, whether they intend to amend the Act or to introduce new legislation based upon it in order to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Temple-Morris
uin	HL2574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 remains in force and there are no current plans to amend it.</p><p>The UK has a range of terrorism and criminal law offences to tackle British citizens who travel overseas to participate in armed conflict abroad. Where there is evidence that these individuals are engaging in activities there which may harm the UK, we can already seek prosecution on their return to the UK.</p><p>The Prime Minister recently announced a package of wide-ranging measures which will further strengthen our capability to deal with the increased threat from foreign fighters and British-born jihadists who seek to harm the UK. In addition, the Government is already legislating in the Serious Crime Bill to extend our territorial jurisdiction over two offences in the Terrorism Act 2006 which will enable the prosecution of those who travel overseas to prepare and train for terrorism.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 11/11/2014 16:53:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	267 label Biography information for Lord Temple-Morris

105769

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what remuneration the Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf, received for being head of their child sexual abuse panel inquiry prior to her resignation.
tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
uin	HL2584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Fiona Woolf has not requested, nor will receive, any remuneration for her time spent as head of the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:24:50 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

105772

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to require children over the age of 16 but below the age of 18 detained for questioning to be transferred from police custody to local authority care overnight; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that young people are protected and treated appropriately while in police custody. Subsequent to making the changes in PACE Codes of Practice C and H, the Government launched an internal review into the outstanding primary provisions in PACE that continue to treat 17 year olds as adults. The Home Office has agreed PACE needs to be amended so that there is consistency in all the provisions that relate to the treatment of 17 year olds, thereby ensuring that they are treated as children.<br><br>The Third Reading of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill on 10 November presented the Government with an opportunity to make a partial change to the current provisions in PACE, specifically in respect to Part IV of PACE, relating to police detention. By amending the definition of ‘arrested juvenile’ in section 37(15) from ‘under the age of 17’ to ‘under the age of 18’, it will require the police to transfer 17 year olds to local accommodation following charge and the refusal of bail. The effect of this amendment will be <br>reflected in future guidance and training. This will make it is absolutely clear to practitioners and the public that 17 year olds will be treated as children by the police under Part IV of PACE. It will ensure that the police transfer 17 year olds to local authority accommodation overnight in circumstances where they have been denied bail.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:21:16 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

105773

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Detainees: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to redraft the code of practice under the Police and Crime Evidence Act 1984 concerning the detention of teenagers.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL2588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>In October 2013 the Government made changes to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Codes of Practice C and H to require the police, as a matter of course, to provide 17 year olds with appropriate adult support and to inform a person responsible for their welfare of their detention. This made the position for 17 year olds consistent with that of 10 to 16 year olds. <br><br>The Government is committed to ensuring that young people are protected and treated appropriately while in police custody. Subsequent to making the changes in PACE Codes of Practice C and H, the Government launched an internal review into the outstanding primary provisions in PACE that continue to treat 17 year olds as adults. The Home Office has agreed PACE needs to be amended so that there is consistency in all the provisions that relate to the treatment of 17 year olds, thereby ensuring that they are treated as children.<br><br>The Third Reading of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill on 10 November presented the Government with an opportunity to make a partial change to the current provisions in PACE, specifically in respect to Part IV of PACE, relating to police detention. By amending the definition of ‘arrested juvenile’ in section 37(15) from ‘under the age of 17’ to ‘under the age of 18’, it will require the police to transfer 17 year olds to local accommodation following charge and the refusal of bail. The effect of this amendment will be <br>reflected in future guidance and training. This will make it is absolutely clear to practitioners and the public that 17 year olds will be treated as children by the police under Part IV of PACE. It will ensure that the police transfer 17 year olds to local authority accommodation overnight in circumstances where they have been denied bail.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:23:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

105780

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which projects and organisations the Home Office’s Prevent Programme has funded since June 2011 in order to protect children from extremism and radicalisation.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Since June 2011 the Home Office has funded over 180 Prevent projects in priority areas. We do not comment on individual projects, but this includes projects with youth outreach groups, parents, families, and community groups, to protect children from extremism and radicalisation. Around a third of these projects have focused on schools and supplementary schools, and there are currently seven local authorities who have created specific posts dedicated to working with schools.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:28:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

105782

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mediterranean Sea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what evidence they base their assessment that removal of support for rescue operations in the Mediterranean will deter or reduce the number of migrants attempting the crossing.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The decision to phase out the Mare Nostrum search and rescue arrangements in the Mediterranean was taken by Italy with support of all EU Member States, including the UK. <br><br>While the situation is complex, the doubling in numbers attempting the crossing this year has included a rise in numbers from countries with no major current conflict. There is also clear evidence of the exploitation of Mare Nostrum by people smugglers and traffickers who are sending migrants to sea without sufficient fuel or resources to make the crossing. We have seen the Italians draw closer and closer to the Libyan coast, with migrants in some cases using a satellite phone shortly after setting sail to call the Italian Navy to rescue them. We have also seen a recent trend of migrants now flying from Turkey to North Africa in order to make the sea crossing to Italy. Since Mare Nostrum began, UNHCR estimates that over 3,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2014, compared to 600 for the whole of 2013.<br><br>The EU’s previous experience of a surge in crossings, following enhanced Frontex operations in 2008, also suggests that a withdrawal of enhanced maritime operations may lead to a decrease in numbers attempting the crossing. On that basis, the Government believes that the JHA Council was right to conclude that we need to pursue a different approach.</p><p /> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL2599 question first answered 18/11/2014 17:37:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

105783

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling: North Africa
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support, if any, they are offering to North African governments to help tackle the criminal gangs trafficking people across the Mediterranean into Europe.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has an extensive programme of work underway with North African partners to address the criminal activities of people smugglers and human traffickers in that region. For example, we are working with partners in North and East Africa to address the maltreatment of Eritrean migrants in the Sinai, and in March of this year, the Home Secretary also signed an EU ‘Mobility Partnership’ with Tunisia, which is intended to bolster cooperation with that country, including joint efforts to tackle illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings. We have also made clear our intention to join a ‘core group’ of Member States and African partners leading the new ‘Khartoum Process’, due to be launched at a Ministerial Conference in Rome on 28 November, which will focus on new, concrete actions to combating people smuggling and human trafficking in the Horn of Africa. We also support the EU’s proposals for sustainable protection in North and East Africa under EU Regional Development and Protection Programmes (RDPPs). We intend to work with our EU partners to deliver them, as we have already done with the Syria EU Regional Protection and Development Programme alongside our provision of £700 Million in humanitarian aid.</p><p>In the Government’s view the only sustainable response to the scale of the situation in the Mediterranean is to ensure sufficient protection is available in the region and work with third country partners to combat the facilitators and traffickers. We do recognise there will be some refugees for whom regional protection does not offer a viable solution, which is why the UK continues to number among those offering the greatest number of resettlement places in the EU, and has developed our Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme to specifically address the needs of vulnerable migrants fleeing the Syrian conflict.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL2598 question first answered 18/11/2014 15:11:20 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

105784

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mediterranean Sea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to ensure that the withdrawal of search and rescue services for migrants in the Mediterranean is well publicised and well understood.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>We are working with EU partners and with international organisations, including UNHCR, on information campaigns in North and East Africa as part of broader efforts under the EU’s ‘Task Force Mediterranean’. This includes sharing our expertise in this area and assisting work with diaspora communities to dissuade migrants from risking dangerous Mediterranean and Saharan crossings and to counter the narrative of criminal facilitators. The Government has also continued to make clear to EU partners our view that the withdrawal of Mare Nostrum must be accompanied by an information campaign, aimed at ensuring migrants in North Africa are aware of the end of this operation. We have recently reminded the Italian authorities of our view on this matter.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 18/11/2014 17:21:38 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

105785

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Immigration: North Africa
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to expand safe and legal channels for people fleeing North Africa to access sanctuary in Europe.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has an extensive programme of work underway with North African partners to address the criminal activities of people smugglers and human traffickers in that region. For example, we are working with partners in North and East Africa to address the maltreatment of Eritrean migrants in the Sinai, and in March of this year, the Home Secretary also signed an EU ‘Mobility Partnership’ with Tunisia, which is intended to bolster cooperation with that country, including joint efforts to tackle illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings. We have also made clear our intention to join a ‘core group’ of Member States and African partners leading the new ‘Khartoum Process’, due to be launched at a Ministerial Conference in Rome on 28 November, which will focus on new, concrete actions to combating people smuggling and human trafficking in the Horn of Africa. We also support the EU’s proposals for sustainable protection in North and East Africa under EU Regional Development and Protection Programmes (RDPPs). We intend to work with our EU partners to deliver them, as we have already done with the Syria EU Regional Protection and Development Programme alongside our provision of £700 Million in humanitarian aid.</p><p>In the Government’s view the only sustainable response to the scale of the situation in the Mediterranean is to ensure sufficient protection is available in the region and work with third country partners to combat the facilitators and traffickers. We do recognise there will be some refugees for whom regional protection does not offer a viable solution, which is why the UK continues to number among those offering the greatest number of resettlement places in the EU, and has developed our Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme to specifically address the needs of vulnerable migrants fleeing the Syrian conflict.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL2596 question first answered 18/11/2014 15:11:22 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno