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100389

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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	Thailand
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Thailand in the last six months regarding the prosecution of Andy Hall.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	211574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>I have been following Mr Hall’s case since 2013, and raised it while I was in Thailand in May 2013. Officials at our Embassy in Bangkok and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London continue to monitor his case closely, ensuring that it is raised with the Thai authorities where appropriate. We continue to remind the Thai authorities of their obligations to ensure international human rights standards are upheld. We fully support the right of activists to carry out their work and voice their opinion in order to promote human rights peacefully.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 27/10/2014 14:38:17 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

93195

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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	Colombia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions to ensure that British companies working in Colombia are not involved in land-grab from peasant land-owners.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) visited Colombia in February this year and discussed business and human rights in his meetings with President Santos, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance and Trade and with civil society. We have a strong partnership with the government of Colombia on implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, in the context of the November 2011 Joint Declaration on Human Rights. I had a substantive discussion with the Deputy Foreign Minister regarding these matters during my visit to Bogota in June.</p><p> </p><p>The Ambassador and Embassy team regularly meet representatives of Civil Society to hear their concerns about human rights in Colombia, including business behaviour. If British firms are involved we raise issues with them as appropriate. The team in Bogota also meets with British companies and encourages adherence to best practice and global standards in their operations.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 21/10/2014 15:50:18 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

92938

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Wind Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many wind turbines were erected in each of the last five years; and how many of those turbines have had to be repaired.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on when individual wind turbines were constructed and installed, nor on repair and maintenance of wind farm developments.</p><p>It does however hold records of wind farm developments becoming fully operational and the number of turbines associated with those developments. This information is found on the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-energy-planning-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/renewable-energy-planning-data</a></p><p>For reference, the following shows the number of wind turbines generating in wind farm developments that have become fully operational in the 5 years to the end of 2013:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong><em>Onshore Wind</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Offshore Wind</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>271</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>657</p></td><td><p>309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>683</p></td><td><p>279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: REPD, August 2014</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 23/10/2014 13:18:44 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

92965

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abduction: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been abducted by a member of their family in the last five years; how many such children were returned to their family; and how long each such abduction lasted.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.<br><br>Statistics on child abduction are published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This data does not identify the perpetrator. Nor does it provide a breakdown of attempted child abductions and actual child abductions. <br><br>The latest ONS statistics, published 16 October 2014, report that there have been 2721 child abductions and attempted abductions in the last five years.<br>A breakdown of this figure by year is provided below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p>560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>532</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>568</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Total </strong>2721</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 23/10/2014 15:42:15 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

92966

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abduction: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children abducted by a member of their family were taken overseas in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is not notified of every case when a child is removed overseas by a relative, therefore we cannot provide accurate figures for abducted children. There are a number of steps that left behind parents can take if their child is taken overseas without their consent and we urge parents to contact the relevant desk officer in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Consular Directorate country casework teams who can provide further assistance. <br><br>The UK lobbies countries that are not signatories of the 1980 Hague Convention to sign it. If a child is removed to a country that is a signatory of the Hague Convention there are systems in place to help secure the child’s return. Cases involving non-Hague convention signatories are much harder to resolve and parents often face lengthy and expensive court proceedings abroad to try to facilitate their return.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 23/10/2014 16:37:59 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon