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832860

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Muslim Council of Britain
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether ministerial approval was given before Home Office officials met with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) to discuss the possibility of Home Office re-engagement; if so, which minister approved that meeting; and what were the names of the MCB members whom officials met.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>Through its work to tackle and challenge extremism and prevent people from becoming radicalised, the Government meets with a wide range of organisations in order to safeguard individuals, families and communities from the harmful impacts of extremism and radicalisation. These organisations must be prepared to show leadership, point to solutions and challenge and confront extremist and terrorist ideologies and narratives whatever form they take.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/02/2018 12:56:34 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

832862

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to review the performance of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2018 answer text <p>The performance of the DPP is reviewed on a regular basis and the Attorney General has regular meetings with the DPP about the work of the Crown Prosecution Service. The Crown Prosecution Service is also regularly inspected by HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate which includes looking at performance within each area and on a national level for thematic reports.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 15/02/2018 14:02:05 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

832863

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in determining the amount of aid for Pakistan in 2018–19 of £345 million, what consideration, if any, was given to (1) the reported assistance given to the Afghan Taliban by that country's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, (2) the amount spent on nuclear weapons per annum by that country, (3) the amount per annum spent on defence, (4) Pakistan's rating by Transparency International, (5) the use of the death penalty there, and the number of prisoners awaiting execution, (6) the number of juveniles sentenced to death, (7) recent death sentences for blasphemy, (8) the practice and legal status of female genital mutilation, (9) the intimidation of journalists who criticise Pakistan's military, and (10) the 2016 Amnesty International report listing Pakistan in the top ten worst countries in the world for human rights abuses.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL5198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Helping to ensure a prosperous and stable Pakistan is critical for the future of millions of poor Pakistanis, and the stability and security of both the region and the UK. The UK is helping Pakistan improve its basic services, reduce poverty, and promote equality. Our funding helps strengthen institutions, develop markets and build systems for a self-sufficient and better governed country. DFID’s work supports wider UK objectives by helping to reduce threats to the UK which may emanate from Pakistan linked to extremism, illegal migration and foreign national offenders in the UK of Pakistan origin.</p><p> </p><p>Our aid relationship with any government is based on an assessment of commitment to our Partnership Principles, including to promote and safeguard human rights. We no longer provide General Budget Support to Pakistan. Instead, where it is effective and efficient to work through government systems, we direct our support towards specific areas such as health and education sectors. UK aid programmes which provide funding through the Government only proceed when the Government of Pakistan provides most of the funds itself, commits to increase its own spending, and delivers results; and when we know UK aid is protected from corruption. DFID and the FCO continue to raise the issue of human rights of minorities at the highest levels of Government. No UK aid funds nuclear programmes in Pakistan, either directly or indirectly. It is the long-standing policy of the Government not to comment on matters relating to intelligence or national security and we are not aware of any reliable data that is available on Pakistan’s nuclear programme expenditure.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/02/2018 17:22:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

825261

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
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 Keen of Elie on 16 January (HL4533), in cases where there is no evidence at all against an accused, whether the CPS intends to drop the wording recommended by Sir Richard Henriques that "the case failed to meet the evidential test", and to change the Code accordingly.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not currently intend to change the wording recommended by Sir Richard Henriques for public announcements of decisions not to charge an individual, namely that “the case failed to meet the evidential test”.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service has no immediate plans to change the wording of the evidential stage of the full Code test.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/01/2018 13:39:38 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

825262

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Media: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the settlement of a claim against Facebook in the High Court in Belfast concerning nude photos of a girl aged 14 placed on the Facebook website, whether they intend to assist people under 18 to pursue claims for similar abuses against social media companies.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The civil justice system provides an individual with a route to pursue a legal claim and potential damages against other parties. However, it would not be appropriate for the Government to intervene directly in private law proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/01/2018 17:28:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

825263

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parole Board
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what processes they use to review the performance of Parole Board psychologists; what actions they take to follow up instances of poor decision-making, judgment or performance; and whether they intend to conduct a study to assess the appropriateness of recommendations by Parole Board psychologists that sex offenders should be released in the light of whether those offenders subsequently re-offend.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>All members of the Parole Board, including psychologist members, are subject to quality assurance processes. Members are assessed as part of their accreditation to make decisions and there is on-going, routine quality assurance thereafter.</p><p> </p><p>Cases where there has been a serious further offence within three years of a Parole Board decision to release are reviewed by the Board’s Review Committee and any learning that is identified is used to inform future policy, guidance and training.</p><p> </p><p>The Parole Board also has a Standards Committee that focuses on developing and promoting high standards of practice across the whole of the Board.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/01/2018 16:09:27 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

823990

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
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 Williams of Trafford on 15 January (HL4538), whether they will now answer the specific questions asked, namely (1) whether they have made any assessment of the finding of the report by Quilliam, Group Based Child Sexual Exploitation – Dissecting Grooming Gangs, published in December 2017, that 84 per cent of child sexual exploitation offenders who operate in gangs or groups are Asian, most of whom are men “of Pakistani (Muslim) origin”, (2) what is their estimate of that percentage, and (3) if different, on what statistics and records they have based their estimate; and if they will not answer those questions, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Improving our understanding of the scale and nature of all forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse, including that involving gangs and groups, as highlighted by the Quilliam Foundation, is a priority for this Government. As referred to in the previous answer we have invested a significant amount of funding in a new independent Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse which is drawing on government, academic, law enforcement and civil society sources of information to assess the scale and nature of CSEA.</p><p>With enhanced understanding of the nature and demographics of offending, we will further improve our response. We have not assessed the Quilliam report assessment. We will ensure that the work of the Centre of Expertise, bringing in other partners, considers the wide range of information available, including the Quilliam report.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/01/2018 16:06:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

823991

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Patients: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will put policies and procedures in place to ensure that female patients who want to be treated by female NHS staff are not treated by males who have self defined as female; and if so, what are those policies and procedures.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not have a policy on patients’ ability to specify the gender of the staff treating them. Individual National Health Service organisations set their own policies on this matter.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the NHS Constitution, patients have the right to express a preference for using a particular doctor within their general practitioner practice, and the practice must try to meet this request.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the General Medical Council guidance to doctors states that, when proposing to carry out an intimate examination, doctors should offer the patient the option of having an impartial observer (a chaperone) present wherever possible. This applies whether or not the doctor is the same gender as the patient.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 29/01/2018 17:51:23 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

823993

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parole: Sexual Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to set out the criteria, and tests they undertake, by which Parole Board psychologists and psychiatrists determine that a sex offender is fit for release.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Where the release of a prisoner is at the discretion of the Parole Board, the panel must apply the statutory release test which requires the Board to be ‘satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public that a prisoner should be confined’.</p><p> </p><p>Parole panels comprise one or more members according to the needs and complexity of the case. Some, but not all, Parole Board panels include a psychologist member of the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>At an oral hearing, the parole panel will hear evidence and witnesses may include a prison psychologist and/or an independent psychologist.</p><p> </p><p>Psychologist members of the Parole Board do not undertake psychological assessment of prisoners nor do they give evidence to the parole panel. They sit in the same capacity as other members of the panel to assess the risk of serious harm to the public. The panel must determine whether the public would be at risk of further serious violent or sexual offending if the prisoner were to be released. Psychologist members have professional knowledge of psychology to assist the panel in considering the psychological assessment that forms part of the broad range of evidence before the panel.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4741 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:43:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

823994

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parole: Sexual Offences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, with respect to the advice of Parole Board psychologists and psychiatrists relating to a sex offender being considered for release, what level of risk of offending is considered suitable for release.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Where the release of a prisoner is at the discretion of the Parole Board, the panel must apply the statutory release test which requires the Board to be ‘satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public that a prisoner should be confined’.</p><p> </p><p>Parole panels comprise one or more members according to the needs and complexity of the case. Some, but not all, Parole Board panels include a psychologist member of the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>At an oral hearing, the parole panel will hear evidence and witnesses may include a prison psychologist and/or an independent psychologist.</p><p> </p><p>Psychologist members of the Parole Board do not undertake psychological assessment of prisoners nor do they give evidence to the parole panel. They sit in the same capacity as other members of the panel to assess the risk of serious harm to the public. The panel must determine whether the public would be at risk of further serious violent or sexual offending if the prisoner were to be released. Psychologist members have professional knowledge of psychology to assist the panel in considering the psychological assessment that forms part of the broad range of evidence before the panel.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4740 question first answered 31/01/2018 14:43:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra