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1686096

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date	30/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tankers: Insurance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of (1) environmental, and (2) other, damage posed by the passage through or close to UK waters of uninsured oil tankers; and whether they will plan any measures to prevent potential damage and financial loss to the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The UK, together with international partners, has implemented extensive sanctions against Russia following its illegal invasion of Ukraine. These include sanctions which have targeted oil, Russia’s greatest source of revenue.</p><p> </p><p>Illegal circumvention of those sanctions is unacceptable, which is why the Government is seeking multilateral action through the International Maritime Organization (IMO), such as the recent resolution on ship-to-ship (STS) transfers at sea by the dark fleet, which was co-sponsored by the UK and other G7 nations to tackle the environmental risk. This resolution presents strong recommendations to improve awareness and monitoring of STS transfers in countries’ waters, stronger adherence to international regulations and conventions, and a greater awareness of the fraudulent and deceptive activities by vessels in the ‘dark fleet’. Through these actions, the Government intends to highlight on the global stage the illegality of Russia’s actions and reduce the pollution risk by outlining the strong response that will be delivered to violations of sanctions.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, the UK is a state party to the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, which provides financial compensation for oil pollution damage that occurs in Member States resulting from spills of oil from tankers and includes situations where the oil tanker does not have valid insurance.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has well-established plans/protocols for the response to an oil spill. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is the National Competent Authority for at-sea pollution response. The MCA Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS), under the direction of HM Coastguard, are custodians of the national pollution response resources which comprise specialist oil containment and recovery equipment and dispersant. These are supported by manned aircraft for spill surveillance, verification and quantification and a suite of aerial dispersant spraying capability. Personnel and resources are in place 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year and provide an incident management and response capability anywhere within the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Regular exercises are undertaken to test national multi-agency spill response procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The MCA does not have responsibility for pollution response on the UK shoreline; this is vested in the local authorities and devolved nations. However, the MCA CPS will support pollution response along the UK shoreline using the other nationally held containment and recovery capability held in the stockpiles. Incident management, specialist response teams, and liaison personnel are also available. As with at-sea pollution response, regular engagement with local authorities in response exercises is undertaken. The resources held by the MCA are those commensurate with a Tier 3 national response requirement as described within the National Contingency Plan for Pollution from Shipping and Offshore Installations.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 07/02/2024 13:17:41 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

1491764

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pastoral Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the service provided to armed forces personnel by the chaplaincy is prioritised according to the religion or belief of the individual seeking pastoral support.
tabling member printed	Baroness Massey of Darwen
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2022 answer text <p>Information regarding how many users of the chaplaincy identified as non-religious is not held. Data regarding any protected characteristics of individuals seeking confidential pastoral support is not normally recorded, nor will they necessarily even arise or be disclosed unless they have a direct bearing upon the issues at hand.</p><p> </p><p>Where dissatisfaction or a neutral stance is expressed in the Armed Forces Continuous Attitudes Survey (AFCAS), the specific reasoning behind each survey response is not recorded. AFCAS does not go into that level of detail, however, local evaluations in-Unit routinely show high levels of satisfaction with the teaching and pastoral care that chaplaincy provides.</p><p> </p><p>Neutral responses with the AFCAS survey are often in effect a “not applicable (N/A)” response. In this case the respondents are not likely to have sought direct support from the chaplaincy in the time frame of the AFCAS survey. As they are unlikely to have accessed or used the service provided, there are no specific measures targeting improvement for this cohort of respondents. <br> <br> Information regarding a breakdown of resources comparing the chaplaincy to the various staff networks that provide support to Service personnel is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The question of the religion, belief, or any other protected characteristics of an individual in contact with chaplaincy has absolutely no bearing on priority of access for pastoral support. Pastoral support is delivered according to need and open to all.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie grouped question UIN HL2029 question first answered 04/08/2022 15:02:35 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
tabling member	2489 label Biography information for Baroness Massey of Darwen

1347041

registered interest
date	14/07/2021
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure the protection of veterans who served in Northern Ireland while ensuring that the implementation of any such protection does not result in those responsible for terrorist offences evading justice.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it will deliver on its commitments to NI veterans as part of a wider package to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland.</p><p><br> As set out by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland last week, the Government’s proposed package focuses on reconciliation, information recovery and ending the cycle of investigations that is not working for anyone.</p><p><br> The Government remains clear however, that it will never accept any moral equivalence between those who upheld the law in Northern Ireland and those, on all sides, who sought to destroy it.</p><p><br> These proposals will be considered as part of the ongoing intensive talks process with the NI parties, Irish Government and representatives of NI society, further to which we will bring forward legislation.</p><p><br></p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 20/07/2021 13:27:08 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1181768

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by The World Bank Group Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts, published in February, in particular its finding that disbursements of aid to 22 of the most aid-dependent countries coincided with significant increases in the value of bank deposits in tax havens.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>We do not tolerate any misuse of UK aid and have robust systems in place to protect our investments. The Government welcomes research in international development, which can help to inform this. The World Bank is a key partner to the Government in international efforts to tackle corruption and has been assessed by the Government and other parties as having robust procedures to combat fraud and corruption in the use of its funds.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 10/03/2020 17:28:37 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

771229

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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	Armed Conflict: Sexual Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the UK team of experts on preventing sexual violence in conflict has been deployed over the last year; to which countries were they deployed; and what was the outcome in each country.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Over the past 12 months, members of the PSVI Team of Experts (ToE) have been deployed 20 times to 10 countries. <br> <br>Achievements include the training of Malaysian peacekeepers on preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence and sexual exploitation and abuse. This work was praised by the Malaysian Peacekeeping Centre and is planned to be repeated in Vietnam. Both countries deploy to peacekeeping missions including Afghanistan and South Sudan. In addition, members of the ToE have supported a joint UN/UK workshop in Bosnia to launch the Principles for Global Action on preventing and addressing stigma associated with conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). The team of experts have also trained UK armed forces on preventing and responding to CRSV</p><p><br>A scoping mission on capacity to document and investigate CRSV in Daesh–held territory has been completed by a member of the ToE with a view to training Iraqi actors on the use of the International Protocol (IP), on the documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Members of the ToE have also delivered IP training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda, Rwanda, Colombia and to Syrian human rights activists based in Turkey. A member of the ToE also co-wrote the revised IP released in March this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/10/2017 15:44:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

592904

registered interest
date	03/10/2016
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	Italy: British Nationals Abroad
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 Anelay of St Johns on 19 September (HL1756), how many British nationals they estimate are long-term residents in Italy; how many UK consular offices there are in Italy; when those consular offices ceased renewing passports for British nationals; how many renewals there were in the last year during which this service was provided; and how many emergency travel documents the Rome or Milan offices have issued in the past year.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2016 answer text <ol><li>In 2015 the UN, in their '<em>Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin'</em> report, estimated that 64,986 British people were living in Italy.</li><li>As of October 2016 we have two permanent Consular Offices in Rome and Milan. These offices are supported by a network of five Honorary Consuls operating in Venice, Genoa, Catania (Sicily), Cagliari and Naples.</li><li>The processing of passport renewal applications from Italy was transferred to the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris in 2009<em>. </em>On 1 April 2011 an accord was signed between FCO and the Home Office to transfer responsibility for overseas passports to the Identity and Passport Service, now known as Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO). The transition of application processing from the Regional Passport Processing Centre in Paris to HMPO began in June 2013. This included all applications made from Italy. This process concluded in March 2014. As part of this process, all records were transferred to HMPO, and the FCO does not hold records of the numbers of passports issued overseas.</li><li>In 2015 we issued 1,261 emergency travel documents from our Consular offices in Italy. 83 of those emergency travel documents were issued because of expired passports.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/10/2016 16:03:53 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

417110

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government (1) whether the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme will be expanded and (2) why so few vulnerable Syrians have been relocated to date.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>An expansion to the Syrian Vulnerable Persons' Scheme has been announced. Her Majesty's Government now intends to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.</p><p>The Scheme is based on need, prioritising those who cannot be supported effectively in their region of origin: women and children at risk, people in severe need of medical care and survivors of torture and violence. We work closely with the UNHCR to identify cases that they deem to be in need of resettlement and we will continue this work to ensure even greater numbers are identified and provided with refuge in the UK. Individuals admitted under the Scheme to date are in addition to nearly 5,000 Syrian nationals who have been granted asylum in the UK since the crisis there began.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 22/09/2015 14:55:54 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian