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date	05/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they intend to take to protect LGBTI asylum seekers facing discrimination and violence in asylum accommodation managed by private companies on behalf of the Home Office.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Housing providers are contractually required to take account of any particular circumstances and vulnerabilities of those that they accommodate, including sexual orientation or gender identity. The Home Office and our accommodation providers take complaints extremely seriously and have robust procedures in place to inspect, investigate and resolve any complaints raised, where specific information is provided.</p><p>We urgently investigate any complaints we receive where standards have fallen short of what we would expect. When there is clear evidence of this we work with our providers to ensure issues are quickly addressed and when they are not, we can and do impose sanctions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/03/2018 11:58:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

855455

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who are claiming asylum, and have made reference to a reason being their sexual orientation or gender identity, have been held in detention in the last three years for more than (1) six months, (2) 12 months, (3) 18 months, and (4) 24 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold pre-July 2015 data in a reportable format however experimental data on asylum claims lodged on the basis of sexual orientation, including the number of claimants who were granted asylum, between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2017 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asylum-claims-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asylum-claims-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation</a></p><p>Unfortunately specific information on the length of time, that those who have claimed asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation, have spent in detention, is not currently published and could only be obtained by a manual check of each record.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6062 question first answered 09/03/2018 14:34:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum-claims-basis-sexual-orientation.pdf title Asylum Claims - Sexual Orientation
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

855456

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in respect of those individuals being held in detention who are claiming asylum and have made reference to a reason being their sexual orientation or gender identity, what is the longest time in days that any such individual has been held.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL6062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold pre-July 2015 data in a reportable format however experimental data on asylum claims lodged on the basis of sexual orientation, including the number of claimants who were granted asylum, between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2017 is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asylum-claims-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asylum-claims-on-the-basis-of-sexual-orientation</a></p><p>Unfortunately specific information on the length of time, that those who have claimed asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation, have spent in detention, is not currently published and could only be obtained by a manual check of each record.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6061 question first answered 09/03/2018 14:34:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum-claims-basis-sexual-orientation.pdf title Asylum Claims - Sexual Orientation
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven