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434096

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date	03/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Cyprus: Military Bases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many refugees have penetrated security at the sovereign base of Akrotiri in the past two months; how many of those refugees remain on that base; and where those refugees who are no longer on that base have gone.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL4215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>115 migrants arrived by boat at RAF Akrotiri on 21 October 2015. None penetrated the robust and established security measures we have in place to protect the base. The migrants came under the control of the Sovereign Base Area Administration as soon as they set foot on shore and at no point were they near any secure facilities within the base. Operational activity was not affected.</p><p>All of the migrants were transferred from RAF Akrotiri on 27 October 2015 to a specially prepared transit facility in the Eastern Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia outside of the military garrison.</p><p>As at 4 December 2015, 54 migrants are accommodated in the transit facility, one is held within HMP Dhekelia and 60 have transferred to reception centres in the Republic of Cyprus.</p><br /> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 08/12/2015 17:06:39 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

434097

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Dunlop on 2 December (HL3879), whether they will publish the draft Bill for setting up the Historical Investigations Unit and other legacy bodies that was presented to political parties at those negotiations, and why they did not provide that information in that answer.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL4216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The matter of how best to move forward and achieve broad consensus in support of legislation to establish the legacy bodies, including whether to publish the draft Bill, is currently being considered.</p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 08/12/2015 13:18:52 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

433637

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Domestic Workers Visa Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish the report by James Ewins of his review of the overseas domestic workers visa, and their response to it, before the Immigration Bill 2015 receives its second reading in this House.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hamwee
uin	HL4147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Mr Ewins’s report has been submitted to the Home Office and will be published shortly. The Government will announce its response to the report in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:10:33 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2652 label Biography information for Baroness Hamwee

433642

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: France
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken, in conjunction with the government of France, (1) to enable refugees now in France to come to Britain, such as for family re-union, and how many have come since 2013; (2) to assist those in irregular camps to apply for asylum in France; and (3) to register unaccompanied refugee children, wherever they may be; and what plans they have for further action.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>All migrants, including families and children, in Calais who wish to seek asylum should do so in France. We will consider any request made to us by the French asylum authorities to take responsibility for an asylum applicant in France because they have close family in the UK in accordance with the terms of the Dublin Regulation concerning the principle of family unity and the best interests of the child. If not claiming asylum, individual migrants in France, as in any other country, are entitled to apply under the Family Reunion provisions to join relatives in the UK by making the appropriate application. Statistics for transfers of asylum applicants from France to the UK on the basis of family ties since 2013 are not routinely recorded.</p><p>The UK-France Joint Declaration of 20 August 2015 committed the UK to providing £3.6 million (or €5 million) per year for two years to help support a range of work to manage the migrant population in Calais, in particular to provide support and facilities elsewhere in France. This includes increasing the frequency of communications campaigns involving British officials speaking to migrants in Calais to inform migrants of the reality of life in the UK and of their rights to claim asylum in France.</p><p>The French Government has opened up new places in its asylum system, away from Calais and migrants have started to voluntarily leave Calais to take up these places. Additionally, the UK has provided £530,000 (€750,000) to fund a project to identify those in the camps at risk of trafficking and exploitation, to transfer them briskly to places of safety; and to provide them with appropriate support within the French system.</p><p>Unaccompanied migrant children who apply for asylum following arrival in the UK have their details recorded by the Home Office and are issued with an Application Registration Card. There are no plans for the UK to register the details of asylum seeking children in another country as this role will fall to the relevant authorities in that country.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:08:42 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

433662

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 24 November (HL3477), what is the breakdown by category of offence of those 127 applications for a European Arrest Warrant and 40 British citizens extradited.
tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
uin	HL4172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>A breakdown of the offences is set out in the table below. These only relate to the principal offences listed on the warrants, as other offences may be listed:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Offences listed on EAW requests for British Citizens</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal offence</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arson</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Child Sex Offences</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Counterfeit Currency</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Death by Dangerous driving</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Driving Whilst Disqualified</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drugs Offences</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>E-Crime</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Evasion of Duty - over £100,000</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Forgery - Not Currency</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Money Laundering</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Murder/Manslaughter</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organised Crime</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parental Abduction</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Possession of a Firearm</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Public Order</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rape</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Assault/Grievous Bodily Harm</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Sexual Assault</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>127</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Offences for which British Citizens were extradited</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal offence</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Armed Robbery</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drugs Offences</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Evasion of Duty - over £100,000</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Murder/Manslaughter</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rape</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Assault/Grievous Bodily Harm</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Sexual Assault</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>40</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:03:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

433664

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Tower Hamlets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 2 December (HL3697) regarding the sale of 41–71 Commercial Road, Aldgate, for which school the site will be developed; and whether that school will use the entire site.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL4174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The school site has been leased back to the university until August 2016. This allows the EFA to develop the site in time for a school to open there in September 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2015 15:56:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

433395

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many acts of reported bullying were recorded in schools during each of the past three academic years.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL4113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>All bullying is unacceptable and schools must have measures in place to address it. The Department does not collect information on the number of acts of reported bullying recorded in schools. Ofsted does, however, hold schools accountable for their effectiveness in tackling bullying.</p><br /><p>In 2015-16, the Department is providing £3.3m to charitable organisations to tackle bullying and to provide support for those who are bullied. This is on top of the £4m provided in 2013-15.</p><br /><p>The Longitudinal Study of Young Peoplein England (LSYPE), which was published in November 2015, compared bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10 students) from 2004 and 2014. The study found that 30,000 fewer pupils said they had been bullied in the last twelve months in 2014. This represented a drop from 41 per cent in 2004 to 36 per cent in 2014.</p><br /><p>The Department does publish information on the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in the “Statistics: exclusions” series. This information has been provided in the table below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 1: The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions due to bullying in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools (1)(2)(3)(4)</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Permanent exclusions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>40</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fixed period exclusions</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>4,490</p></td><td><p>3,920</p></td><td><p>3,360</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>1. State-funded primary schools include all primary academies, including free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>2. State-funded secondary schools include city technology colleges and all secondary academies, including all-through academies and free schools. Includes middle schools as deemed.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>3. Special schools include maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools.</p></td><td colspan="4"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>4. Totals have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="7"><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2015 16:00:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

433398

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Interviews
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many personal interviews with adults applying for a passport for the first time have been conducted in each year since such interviews were required, and what has been the total cost of conducting those interviews.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The 2007-08 information below reflects the pilot and roll out of the Interview offices across this period of time. The increase in costs in 2008-09 reflects the final locations and staff starting. The reduction in costs between 2011 and 2012 reflects the reduction in locations.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year <br></p></td><td><p>Number of Interviews</p></td><td><p>Estate and staff costs (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>85,051</p></td><td><p>31,915,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>261,438</p></td><td><p>37,316,440</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>297,575</p></td><td><p>36,756,542</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>296,312</p></td><td><p>31,087,014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>257,518</p></td><td><p>10,289,941</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>283,341</p></td><td><p>9,269,802</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>277,560</p></td><td><p>8,946,213</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:33:24 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

433400

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Interviews
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many adults applying for a passport for the first time have failed to attend their scheduled personal interview in each year since such interviews were required.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The numbers given reflect the number of interviews where the applicant failed to attend.</p><p>An applicant is given three attempts to book and attend an interview. If they fail to attend 3 times then we can withdraw their application.</p><p>From 2008 to 2009 information on failed interviews was held in each Interview Office and not collated or transformed into centrally held data.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year <br></p></td><td><p>Number of interviews where applicant did not attend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>4887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>4542</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>3442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>4623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>3967</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>4414</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:35:23 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

433401

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Interviews
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many passport interview offices there were in each year since adults applying for the first time for a passport were required to attend a personal interview.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the maximum number of interview locations available in each year. The introduction of passport interview offices on 3rd party sites reflects the move to sharing interview locations with 3rd parties, mainly Local Authorities, where previously HM Passport Office had its own site.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year <br></p></td><td><p>Maximum number of passport interview offices</p></td><td><p>Maximum number of passport interview offices on 3<sup>rd</sup> party site</p></td><td><p>Total maximum number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/12/2015 15:30:37 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno