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350126

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated increase in council tax arrears following changes to council tax benefit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing the impact of their local council tax support schemes, including on arrears, and ensuring that this is taken into account when schemes are reviewed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/06/2015 11:17:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

350122

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army Reserve
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average age of an Army Reserve Officer.
	tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
	uin	HL436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>As at 1 April 2015, the average age of Army Reserve Officers was 26 years (untrained) and 44 years (trained), providing an overall average of 43 years.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/06/2015 16:32:17 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

350104

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the total cost so far of providing personnel from the Ministry of Defence, National Health Service and Public Health England, and materials and medicines from the United Kingdom, to international efforts to tackle the recent ebola crisis.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK has committed £427m to combat Ebola in West Africa, £373m for the ongoing response and £54m for early recovery programmes. This package of support covers the cost of UK operations, including Ministry of Defence assets and personnel, PHE clinicians, materials and medicines. Over £260 million has now been disbursed.</p> answering member printed Earl of Courtown question first answered 25/06/2015 16:39:51 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

350107

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Burma: Refugees
	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 Verma on 10 June (HL125), what is their current estimate of the number of men, women and children in those camps; why that estimate was not given in that Answer; and what is their estimate of the average number of years refugees have been living in the camps on the Burma–Thai border.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>According to latest reports from The Border Consortium (TBC) at the end of December there were 110,094 refugees who had been verified in the TBC database and were living in the camps. According to UNHCR’s refugees profiling report on years of residency, as of 2014: approximately 64% of the refugees have lived in the shelter for less than 10 years. Almost 30% have lived in the shelter between 11-20 years and only 7% have lived in the shelter over 20 years.</p> answering member printed Earl of Courtown question first answered 24/06/2015 15:26:20 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

350138

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Communications Data and Interception Powers Review
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of David Anderson's finding that there is no compelling case for the compulsory retention of third party data in his report of the Investigatory Powers Review.
	tabling member printed	Lord Paddick
	uin	HL452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>As my right Honourable Friend, the Home Secretary, said in her statement to the House of Commons on 11 June (Col 1356), which I repeated, David Anderson does not say that access to third party data should not be permissible or possible but that a compelling operational case should be made first. The Government will consider all David Anderson’s recommendations carefully before bringing forward legislative proposals.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/06/2015 13:49:20 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4288 label Biography information for Lord Paddick

350129

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Calais
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken in recent weeks, and what action they intend to take, to respond to the number of displaced people in Calais.
	tabling member printed	Lord Condon
	uin	HL443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>The large number of displaced people in Calais is, in part, a consequence of the Schengen Area, in which the UK does not participate. The maintenance of law and order on French soil is, of course, a matter for French Government, but it is in the UK's interest to work with them to bolster security at the port.</p><p>The Home Secretary and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve set out a number of commitments in a joint declaration on 20 September 2014 to tackle problems at the port of Calais. This included £12m from the UK Government to help reinforce security.</p><p>We continue to work with the French Government to implement the practical solutions that have been agreed. We are also working to address the wider problem of illegal migration, for example by increasing joint intelligence work with the French to target the organised crime gangs behind people smuggling.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/06/2015 15:47:34 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

350137

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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 requests for asylum from Eritreans have been granted over the last year, on a month by month basis.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
	uin	HL451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the latest published number of nationals of Eritrea granted asylum and other form of protection in the UK, based on initial decisions for main applicants since January 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><strong>Number of nationals of Eritrea granted asylum or other form of protection in the UK (main applicants), based on initial decisions (1)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Month/Year</td><td>Grants of asylum</td><td>Humanitarian Protection</td><td>Discretionary Leave</td><td>Other form of protection (2)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2014</strong></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>January</td><td>83</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>February</td><td>58</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>March</td><td>67</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>April</td><td>77</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>May</td><td>94</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>June</td><td>111</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>July</td><td>190</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>August</td><td>179</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>September</td><td>270</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>October</td><td>281</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>November</td><td>325</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>December</td><td>409</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total 2014</strong></td><td><strong>2,144</strong></td><td><strong>2</strong></td><td><strong>1</strong></td><td><strong>9</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>2015</strong></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>January</td><td>316</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>February</td><td>157</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>March</td><td>63</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total January to March 2015</strong></td><td><strong>536</strong></td><td><strong>0</strong></td><td><strong>0</strong></td><td><strong>7</strong></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">(1) Initial decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">(2) Figures for 'Other form of protection' include: grants under family and private life rules, which relate to the introduction of a new approach to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, from 9 July 2012; Leave Outside the Rules, which was introduced for those refused asylum from 1 April 2013; and UASC leave, which was introduced for Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children refused asylum but eligible for temporary leave from 1 April 2013.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The figures provided in the table are a subset of latest statistics published in the Immigration Statistics release by the Home Office, in Table as_01_q “Asylum applications and initial decisions for main applicants, by country of nationality”.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on asylum applications and initial decisions within the Immigration Statistics release. A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics January – March 2015, is available from the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/06/2015 16:16:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name HL 451 Table(1).xlsx title table 1
	tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

350130

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people successfully registered to vote in the May 2015 General Election in the month preceding the deadline for registration.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>On 18 June the Electoral Commission published their analysis of the state of the electoral registers used for the General Election. The report shows that the number of entries on the local government and Parliamentary registers had increased by 1% compared with the last registers published before the transition to Individual Electoral Registration. The full report can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/190464/IER-June-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/06/2015 17:27:08 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley attachment 1 file name IER-June-report.pdf title IER Report
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

350131

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Students
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take to combat the decline in students registering to vote.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and more convenient than ever for students to register to vote. Students can now register online in as little as three minutes and many chose to do so before the General Election.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Government has released £530,000 directly to organisations that work to encourage student electoral registration, including £380,000 to the National Union of Students, and continues to foster closer working relationships between universities and authorities through the Student Forum, established and supported by the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/06/2015 17:01:02 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

350132

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Constituencies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the number of parliamentary constituencies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
	uin	HL446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to equalising the size of constituencies in order to make votes of more equal value. The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies (PVSC) Act 2011 provides for the number of UK constituencies to be reduced from 650 to 600 and there is due to be a boundary review on this basis which must report before 1 October 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 25/06/2015 16:53:39 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
	tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton