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65239

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date	02/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
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 appropriateness of the current number of female officers employed by Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Home Office and its service providers comply with all relevant employment legislation. The service provider for Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre (IRC), Serco, is required under their contract to employ sufficient female officers to enable appropriate searching and security arrangements for female detainees. <br><br>Yarl's Wood IRC has 52% male detainee custody officers (DCOs) and 48% female DCOs. A new recruitment drive is underway, with a review of how flexible and family friendly hours might be enhanced to attract more women recruits as well as devising recruitment campaigns that target female audiences. <br><br>Assessment Care in Detention and Teamwork (ACDT) is the system used for monitoring individuals considered to be at risk of self harm and is operated across the detention estate. <br><br>ACDT is a care planning system whereby staff from all areas work together to create a safe and caring environment and provide individual care to detainees.<br><br>All incidents of self harm are treated very seriously and every step is taken to prevent incidents of this nature. Staff at all centres are trained to <br>identify those at risk of self harm so that action can be taken to minimise the risk. Notices in various languages are displayed in IRCs setting out that, where there is a concern about a fellow detainee, this should be brought to the attention of a member of staff. Formal risk assessments on initial detention and systems for raising concerns at any subsequent point feed into established self harm procedures in every IRC, which are in turn underpinned by the Home Office Operating Standard on the Prevention of Self-Harm ACDT requires centre managers to appoint trained assessors and named case managers to provide individualised care to detainees based on their particular needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach grouped question UIN HL770 question first answered 09/07/2014 12:54:25 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

65240

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps to ensure that women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre who are on suicide watch are only supervised by female officers; and if so, what steps are being taken.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Home Office and its service providers comply with all relevant employment legislation. The service provider for Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre (IRC), Serco, is required under their contract to employ sufficient female officers to enable appropriate searching and security arrangements for female detainees. <br><br>Yarl's Wood IRC has 52% male detainee custody officers (DCOs) and 48% female DCOs. A new recruitment drive is underway, with a review of how flexible and family friendly hours might be enhanced to attract more women recruits as well as devising recruitment campaigns that target female audiences. <br><br>Assessment Care in Detention and Teamwork (ACDT) is the system used for monitoring individuals considered to be at risk of self harm and is operated across the detention estate. <br><br>ACDT is a care planning system whereby staff from all areas work together to create a safe and caring environment and provide individual care to detainees.<br><br>All incidents of self harm are treated very seriously and every step is taken to prevent incidents of this nature. Staff at all centres are trained to <br>identify those at risk of self harm so that action can be taken to minimise the risk. Notices in various languages are displayed in IRCs setting out that, where there is a concern about a fellow detainee, this should be brought to the attention of a member of staff. Formal risk assessments on initial detention and systems for raising concerns at any subsequent point feed into established self harm procedures in every IRC, which are in turn underpinned by the Home Office Operating Standard on the Prevention of Self-Harm ACDT requires centre managers to appoint trained assessors and named case managers to provide individualised care to detainees based on their particular needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach grouped question UIN HL769 question first answered 09/07/2014 12:54:26 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

65249

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Egypt
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 Warsi on 11 February (WA 114), what representations they have made and received regarding the seven-year jail terms given to the three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt; and whether they will make representations to the government of Egypt as to their release.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The British Government is appalled by the sentences given to Egyptian and international journalists in Cairo on 23 June, including to two British Nationals being tried in absentia. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), made a statement on 23 June expressing his concerns and urging the Egyptian government to demonstrate its commitment to freedom of expression by reviewing this case as a matter of urgency.</p><p>The Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf el-Kholy was summoned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on 23 June. FCO Political Director, Simon Gass, told the Egyptian Ambassador that the Government was deeply concerned by the verdicts, along with the procedural shortcomings seen during the trials. Our Ambassador in Egypt raised this issue in Cairo with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24 June. We will continue to monitor the situation of these journalists very closely, and raise them with the Egyptian authorities. We look to President Al-Sisi to take steps to implement the rights contained in Egypt's constitution, in particular freedom of expression and association.</p><p>As I stated in my response of 11 February to your parliamentary question regarding the imprisonment of journalists in Egypt, the Government believes a free and robust press is the bedrock of democracy.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 09/07/2014 14:24:47 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

65256

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Levodopa
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group received about the routine use of Duodopa for advanced Parkinson's disease.
tabling member printed	Lord Walton of Detchant
uin	HL786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>We understand that the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group considered evidence on the clinical effectiveness and estimated costs of Duodopa. NHS England plans to publish a commissioning policy statement for Duodopa in due course.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 09/07/2014 15:16:29 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1716 label Biography information for Lord Walton of Detchant

65257

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Levodopa
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how individual funding requests relating to the prescription of Duodopa for patients with advanced Parkinsonism are handled in the National Health Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Walton of Detchant
uin	HL787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>In April 2013 NHS England assumed responsibility for commissioning adult specialist neurosciences services, including the majority of services for people with Parkinson's disease.</p><p> </p><p>Individual funding requests relating to treatments that NHS England is responsible for commissioning are handled in line with NHS England's individual funding requests standard operating procedure, which is at:</p><p> </p><p>www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cp-04.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 09/07/2014 15:17:06 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	1716 label Biography information for Lord Walton of Detchant

65260

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what factors they take into account when they propose use of negative, affirmative or super-affirmative resolution procedures for secondary legislation.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Every delegated power has to be treated on its own merit and the level of parliamentary scrutiny proposed will depend on the nature of the delegated power, past precedent and the level of interest in a particular policy area. In line with the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, the Government has agreed not to create additional procedures where it is not necessary to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 08/07/2014 16:30:50 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

65264

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to improve co-ordination of roadworks between different statutory bodies.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Highways Act 1980 places the responsibility for the management of the road network with local highway authorities. The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 places a specific duty on the authorities to co-ordinate works on their networks, and on utility companies to co-operate with them in doing that. The Traffic Management Act 2004 imposed a ‘Network Management Duty' on authorities and enabled them to introduce Permit Schemes which give them powers to more proactively manage and co-ordinate works to minimise disruption for all road users. They also offer discounts on permit fees when utilities work together to minimise impact on road users. More than half of English authorities have now either introduced a permit scheme, or are working towards it, which we welcome.</p><p> </p><p>Officials work closely with representative bodies of both authorities and utilities to encourage increasing co-ordination and co-operation, whilst allowing for essential services to be maintained.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 09/07/2014 10:42:16 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

65267

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Ms Rashida Manjoo, was not allowed access to Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre during her visit in April.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the noble Lord to the reply I gave on 6 May 2014, Official Report, columns 1400 - 1401.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 09/07/2014 12:45:26 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

65268

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Nigeria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why they deported Ms Afusat Salin back to Nigeria.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The general policy of the Home Office is not to disclose personal information about another person. This is because we have obligations under the Data Protection Act and in law generally to protect this information.<br><br>The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection and we consider every claim for asylum on its individual merits.<br><br>We believe that those with no right to be in the UK should return to their home country and we will help those who wish to leave voluntarily. However, when they refuse to do so we will take steps to enforce their removal at the earliest opportunity</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Taylor of Holbeach question first answered 09/07/2014 12:45:09 answering member 3787 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Holbeach
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

65269

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to achieve a cross-party consensus in the United Kingdom on the case for recognition of the state of Palestine.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>We are not taking steps to achieve a cross-party consensus in the United Kingdom on the case for recognition of the state of Palestine.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 09/07/2014 14:25:05 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge