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1131439

registered interest
date	11/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development: Conferences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many visa applications were (1) made by, and (2) refused for, participants and speakers in the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development conference, held in Westminster on 11 June; and on what grounds they made each such refusal.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL16233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the stated purpose of visit or reasons for refusal is not held in a reportable field on the Home Office visa case-working system.</p><p>The available statistics on grants and refusals by entry clearance visa category, including work and visitor visa routes, are published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019/list-of-tables#visas</a>.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/06/2019 16:29:29 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1129488

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many reports of slavery-related offences have been made to competent authorities since the Modern Slavery Act 2015 came into force, broken down by (1) month, and (2) the identity of first responder.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency publishes statistics on referrals into the National Referral Mechanism on a quarterly basis. This report presents a summary of the number of potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in 2018 and is the final annual report in this format, prior to the transfer of the NRM to the new Home Office Single Competent Authority in April 2019 as part of a wide-reaching NRM Reform Programme.</p><p>Further analysis is contained within the 2018 UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery. These reports are available via the following links:</p><p><a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/282-national-referral-mechanism-statistics-end-of-year-summary-2018" target="_blank">https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/282-national-referral-mechanism-statistics-end-of-year-summary-2018 </a></p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/749346/2018_UK_Annual_Report_on_Modern_Slavery.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/749346/2018_UK_Annual_Report_on_Modern_Slavery.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name NCA - Stats End of Year Summary 2018.pdf title NCA - National Ref Mechanism Stats - 2018 2 file name 2018_UK_Annual_Report_on_Modern_Slavery.pdf title UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery - 2018 question first answered 18/06/2019 14:42:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1126685

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Eritrea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum claims were made in each of the past three years by Eritreans; whether more illegal migrants were smuggled into the UK last year from Eritrea than from any other country; and what assessment they have made of religious persecution in Eritrea as a driver of Eritrean migration.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications for asylum in the UK, broken down by nationality, in its quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The number of applications made by Eritreans in each year are available in table as_01 (Main Applicants; Asylum, volume 1).</p><p>Latest edition available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781299/asylum1-dec-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781299/asylum1-dec-2018-tables.ods</a></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Total applications </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,230</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,085</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,158</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office is unable to report on whether more illegal migrants were smuggled in to the UK last year from Eritrea than from any other country, as the method of entry for those who entered the UK clandestinely and subsequently claimed asylum, is recorded on individual Home Office files and to obtain this information would require a manual trawl and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p>All asylum and human rights applications from Eritrean nationals are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations. Each individual assessment is made against the background of the latest available country of origin information and any relevant caselaw. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eritrea-country-policy-and-information-notes" target="_blank">Country Policy and Information Note Eritrea: Religious groups</a> published in February 2018 (available on Gov.uk) outlines our position.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name Eritrea_-_Religious_Groups_-_CPIN_-_v3.0.pdf title Eritea Religious Groups 2 file name Asylum1 -Dec 2018 Tables.xlsx title Asylum 1 - Dec 2018 Tables question first answered 24/05/2019 13:38:16 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1123280

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Home Secretary on 18 February (HC Deb, col 1198), what consideration they have given to updating the Treason Act 1945 to provide a tenable basis for the prosecution of British citizens who (1) participate in, (2) help to fund, and (3) organise, ISIS inspired atrocities overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2019 answer text <p>To prosecute terrorists for treason risks giving their actions a political status or glamour they do not deserve, rather than treating them merely as criminals. The UK has a comprehensive range of terrorism offences and other powers, which we consider the most appropriate means of dealing with foreign terrorist fighters. Additionally, the Government has just passed the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act, which updates terrorism offences and introduces new powers, to reflect the threat we face today from foreign terrorist fighters. This will provide the police and intelligence services with the powers they need to protect the public.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/05/2019 12:39:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1110668

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: Crimes against Humanity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 8 April (HL14768), whether the individuals they assessed as no longer being of national security concern were prosecuted for participation or complicity in Daesh atrocities; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>I cannot comment on individual cases. Decisions about investigation and prosecution are taken independently of Government by the police and Crown Prosecution Service on a case by case basis.</p><p>Any individual who has travelled overseas to engage in conflict will be subject to investigation, and where there is evidence that crimes have been committed, they should expect to face prosecution.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/04/2019 14:26:41 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1110120

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what restrictions are in place to prevent people who incite hatred against minority groups from travelling to the UK; and what plans they have, if any, to introduce new restrictions.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has the power to exclude from the UK individuals who engage in unacceptable behaviour, including those who express or encourage views which may foster hatred and lead to inter-community violence in the UK.</p><p><br>The Immigration Rules also provide for the refusal of entry clearance or leave to enter at the border if someone’s character, conduct or associations mean it is undesirable to grant them entry to the United Kingdom.</p><p><br>There are no plans to introduce further powers to prevent people who incite hatred against minority groups from travelling to the UK.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/04/2019 14:17:42 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1104643

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: Crimes against Humanity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 March (HL Deb, cols 1523–5), how many individuals accused of participation or complicity in the Daesh atrocities have been prosecuted to date in the UK; and on what charges.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>There are a range of tough measures to deal with people who pose a serious threat to the UK. As of June 2018, there had been around 40 convictions of individuals who had been prosecuted following their return from Syria, for a range of offences connected to their activities overseas or subsequent counter-terrorism investigations.</p><p>This number includes a ten year custodial sentence for Mohammed Abdullah, a British national convicted in December 2017 of IS membership, after leaked documents from a defector revealed his role as a “specialist sniper”, and the minimum of 40 years for Khalid Ali who was sentenced in 2018 for planning a terrorist attack in Westminster.</p><p>The majority of those who have returned did so in the earlier stages of the conflict and have been investigated. A significant proportion of these individuals are assessed as no longer being of national security concern.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 08/04/2019 15:19:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1086313

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recommendations in the Addendum to the 2015 Madrid Guiding Principle 10(29)(e) to "increase the use of financial intelligence and financial footprints as a tool to detect networks of terrorists, financiers and sympathizers".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Investigating authorities have access to a broad range of investigative tools and financial intelligence which can be easily shared between relevant agencies. Since 2015, investigators may also share and obtain information from other Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAs) and financial institutions through the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Task Force, a public-private collaboration.</p><p>The UK’s capacity for undertaking terrorist financing investigations was extended by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 which now permits the financial investigation powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 to be exercised by civilian accredited financial investigators employed by LEAs and allows for these orders to be recognised across different UK jurisdictions.</p><p>The international Financial Action Task Force, in their December 2018 report on the UK’s measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, concluded that ‘the UK has been highly effective in investigating, prosecuting and convicting a range of terrorist financing activity’.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/03/2019 17:47:19 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1086315

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recommendations in the Addendum to the 2015 Madrid Guiding Principle 10(29)(g) to "enhance the traceability and transparency of financial transactions, including by ensuring that financial institutions can share information, domestically and internationally within the same financial group, for the purposes of managing money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks and supplying the competent authorities with comprehensive information on criminal schemes; and identifying and registering unregulated money remitters, and assess and address the risks associated with the use of cash, unregulated remittance systems (including hawalas) and other financial products including prepaid cards".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The sharing of information on suspicions of money laundering and terrorist financing within a group is permitted under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.</p><p><br>In the Criminal Finances Act 2017 the Government introduced provisions that will allow certain regulated sector entities to share information between themselves, and with the NCA, where there is a suspicion of money laundering and terrorist financing. Enabling firm-to-firm information sharing through a legal gateway encourages the reporting sector to share information to detect and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/03/2019 17:28:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1086316

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Organised Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recommendations in the Addendum to the 2015 Madrid Guiding Principle 10(29)(j) to "support initiatives and domestic mechanisms to effectively identify and address the linkages between terrorism and transnational organized crime".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK supports UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2396 and the as-sociated Madrid Guiding Principles, and contributed to the drafting of both. We encourage Member States to fully implement UNSCR 2396. . <br> <br>The government has undertaken a wide range of work to maximise the linkag-es between our work to counter both serious and organ-ised crime and terrorism. This is reflected in CONTEST, the United Kingdom’s strategy for counter-terrorism (June 2018: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-strategy-contest-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-terrorism-strategy-contest-2018</a>) and the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (November 2018, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-and-organised-crime-strategy-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-and-organised-crime-strategy-2018</a>). <br> <br>Counter-terrorism policing, the National Crime Agency and the National Police Chiefs’ Council are implementing a counter-terrorism and serious and organ-ised crime collaboration strategy. Its immediate priorities include joint working across a broad range of areas from prisons, intelligence, firearms through to borders.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 140618_CCS207_CCS0218929798-1_CONTEST_3.0_WEB.pdf title Counter Terrorism Strategy - 2018 2 file name SOC-2018-web.pdf title SOC 2018 question first answered 25/03/2019 17:44:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool