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date	20/07/2015
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	Islamic State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Prime Minister's commitment to work with the US to destroy IS, what their strategy is for doing so.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL1649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is part of a Global Coalition of over 60 countries and organisations who have come together to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Coalition agreed that we will need to make concerted efforts on five lines: Military, Foreign Fighters, Finance, Stabilisation and Strategic Communications. The UK is playing a key role to support concerted efforts on these five lines. <br><br>The UK is a leading contributor to the military efforts to defeat ISIL. We are upgrading local forces – the Iraqi Security Forces (including Kurdish fighters) and the Syrian Moderate Opposition – through the provision of training and equipment and the RAF is part of the Coalition’s air support which is helping to defeat ISIL on the ground. <br><br>We are countering ISIL’s efforts to recruit foreign fighters by identifying recruitment networks, encouraging the exchange of information on travel routes, and ensuring Coalition members are sharing information to combat the flow of these fighters. <br><br>We have been working to prevent ISIL’s use of the international financial system and cutting off sources of funding, whether from oil smuggling, kidnap for ransom, foreign donations, or the trade in looted antiquities. <br> <br>The Coalition is committed to providing stabilisation support in Iraq. Essential services, civilian planning, local government and police will be needed in liberated areas to ensure relief and recovery, so that displaced people can choose to return to their homes safely. In the meantime, the UK is providing humanitarian assistance to the millions of people affected by ISIL’s brutality and chaos in Syria, Iraq and the region. The UK is one of the co-leads for the international working group on strategic communications. We are enabling credible voices across the region to speak out against ISIL’s atrocities and to encourage people not to support or promote ISIL. <br>We also support Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi and his efforts to lead an inclusive government and advance national reconciliation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:17:40 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

391300

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Diplomatic Service: Tolls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Anelay of St Johns (HLWS119), what action they have been taking on the issue of unpaid London Congestion Charge bills and fines incurred by diplomatic missions and international organisations, with what results, and when they expect a satisfactory agreement to be reached.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL1655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has held meetings throughout the past year with a number of diplomatic missions and international organisations about outstanding London Congestion Charge bills and fines, and other debts. The subject of a mission’s outstanding debts is also raised with all incoming Heads of Mission.</p><p>In March this year FCO officials wrote to all diplomatic missions with unpaid London Congestion Charges over £100,000 requesting payment of the outstanding fines as a matter of priority and to give them the opportunity to pay the outstanding fines, or to dispute them with Transport for London (TfL), before we published the details.</p><p>Statistics provided by TfL show that the vast majority (around two thirds) of diplomatic missions pay Congestion Charges. Diplomatic missions which do not pay, claim that the Congestion Charge is a form of tax from which they should be exempt under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) 1961. The view of the Government is that there are no legal grounds to exempt diplomats and they are therefore expected to pay Congestion Charges. Officials from the FCO, the Department for Transport (DfT) and TfL continue work to identify a solution to the legal impasse with non-paying missions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:16:39 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

391302

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Diplomatic Service: Parking Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Anelay of St Johns (HLWS116), what action they have been taking on the issue of unpaid parking fines incurred by diplomatic missions and international organisations to ensure fines are duly and regularly paid; and with what result.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL1656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has held meetings throughout the past year with a number of diplomatic missions and international organisations about outstanding parking fines and other debts. The subject of a mission’s outstanding debts is also raised with all incoming Heads of Mission. In April this year FCO officials wrote to all diplomatic missions with unpaid parking fines over £500 to give them the opportunity to either pay the outstanding fines, or to dispute them with the creditors, before the publication of the details to Parliament. Subsequent payments of parking fines, including amounts waived by councils, totalled £214,154.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:16:05 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

391304

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	India
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the statement in 2014 by the Indian Home Minister describing the 1984 killings of Sikhs in India as genocide, whether they are pushing, or plan to push, for an international inquiry.
tabling member printed	Lord Singh of Wimbledon
uin	HL1657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The tragic losses of lives during the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 remain a source of deep pain to Sikhs everywhere around the world. We recognise the deep scars that this has left and the understandably strong feelings that exist to this day. We are aware of reports of the Indian Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, referring to the anti-Sikh riots as genocide. Any inquiry is a matter for the Indian government.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:15:41 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4251 label Biography information for Lord Singh of Wimbledon