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391259

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Conflict Resolution: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who will represent the United Kingdom at the UN Security Council debate on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the UN High Level Review of Women, Peace and Security, in October 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK will be represented at a senior level. A decision will be taken in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:26:59 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391260

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Conflict Resolution: Females
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 implementation by UN Member States of UN Security Council Resolution 1325; and what the United Kingdom’s strategy is as the UN lead nation on this agenda.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK Mission to the UN is in close contact with UN Women, who are supporting the coordination of the Global Study on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 and related preparations for the High Level Review in October. The Global Study will make an assessment on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 by UN Member States, and make recommendations to improve global implementation. The main findings of the Global Study will also be incorporated into the Secretary General’s annual report on Women, Peace and Security, which we expect to be published around the same time as the Global Study. Officials, working closely with colleagues from the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development, are developing a series of UK commitments to improve implementation of UNSCR 1325, which will focus on several key areas where implementation to date has been most lacking, including women’s participation, military/security services, financing, prevention and National Action Plans. These commitments will be announced at the High Level Review in October, subject to Ministers’ views on the proposals.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:19:56 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391261

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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	Syria: Peace Negotiations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it remains their policy to ensure that future negotiations to end the Syria conflict include the formal participation of Syrian women; what representations they have made to the UN about this; and what initiatives they have begun to help identify and support Syrian women’s groups to fulfil this role.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to ensuring that Syrian women participate fully in any future negotiations to end the Syrian conflict. In 2014 we supported an initiative by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to improve the capacity of women’s groups to participate in a political process in Syria, including through learning lessons from similar women’s groups in Bosnia. The initiative also helped to provide a platform for women to advocate for a solution to the conflict in UN fora, including by influencing the UN during the review of Syria’s implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.</p><p> </p><p>We have raised the importance of the role of women’s groups in political processes with senior UN officials, including UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan De Mistura. We understand that Mr De Mistura involved women’s groups in his recent round of consultations on a future political process in Syria. We also ensured that the following language was included in June’s UN Human Rights Council resolution on Syria: “Calls upon the international community to support the leadership and full participation of women in all efforts aimed at finding a political solution to the Syrian Arab Republic, as envisaged by the Security Council in its resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013”.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, our programmes of support to grass roots peace-building initiatives and civil society groups inside Syria seek to ensure that Syrian women’s voices are heard and that they are represented in future political negotiations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:26:50 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391053

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the United Kingdom signed the Istanbul Protocol; and when they plan to ratify it.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention in June 2012. This Government remains committed to its ratification. The Government takes its international commitments very seriously and will only commit to such ratification when we are absolutely satisfied that we comply with all articles. The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles through its comprehensive work to protect women and girls. However primary legislation is needed to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before ratification.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/07/2015 14:03:20 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391054

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iraq: Military Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to integrate training on sexual violence and gender issues into all training given by British forces to the Peshmerga in Iraq.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>Protection of Civilian (PoC) training is now integrated into all of the training courses delivered to Peshmerga troops by UK training teams. This includes training on sexual violence and gender issues.</p><p>UK trainers have also delivered training to coalition partners' training teams within the Building Partner Capacity site at Erbil. This includes German, Norwegian, and Italian trainers. All UK trainers deployed to Iraq are now trained to deliver PoC training prior to leaving the UK.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 30/07/2015 13:46:53 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391055

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Strategic Defence and Security Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the forthcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review will incorporate preventing sexual violence in conflict as a component of building security overseas.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), and to driving forward the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. This commitment will inform work on the relevant aspects of the 2015 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley question first answered 31/07/2015 11:45:00 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391056

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list the countries where the United Kingdom is providing training to foreign armed forces; and of those training missions, whether they will list those which include training in preventing and responding to sexual violence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lady to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces (Penny Mordaunt) in the House of Commons on 2 July 2015 to Question number 4649 to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further to this, I attach two tables which detail the countries receiving training in preventing and responding to sexual violence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 2 July 2015.doc title Armed Forces Training 2 file name 20150727_PSVI training answer (2)[1].doc title PSVI Training question first answered 30/07/2015 14:00:02 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

391057

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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	Conflict Resolution: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what contribution they are making to the UN High Level Review of Women, Peace and Security, and what proposals they have put forward to ensure an ambitious and effective outcome.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK has been actively engaged in discussions in the run-up to the High Level Review, and submitted a paper to UN Women for their Global Study that will form the basis of the High Level Review of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. We also contributed to the EU paper for the Global Study. Officials are in the process of drawing up a list of ambitious UK commitments that will focus on several key areas where implementation to date has been most lacking, including women’s participation, military/security services, financing, prevention and National Action Plans. These commitments will be announced at the High Level Review in October.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 29/07/2015 16:27:43 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

387723

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Conflict Resolution: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 30 June (HL698), when the steering board on Women, Peace and Security was established; and on how many occasions it has met.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The senior-level steering board on Women, Peace and Security was established in April 2015. The Board will meet every six months; its first meeting was in April 2015 and the second will be held in September 2015.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 08/07/2015 15:30:33 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic

387724

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
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	NATO
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 remain priority work areas for the United Kingdom delegation to NATO.
tabling member printed	Baroness Helic
uin	HL1101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK has successfully ensured the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) and UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 is firmly on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) agenda with broad support from other NATO Allies. Earlier this year, our efforts helped create detailed NATO guidelines on the prevention of and response to conflict related sexual and gender based violence. These guidelines will be integrated into the education, training, operational planning, conduct of operations and evaluation of NATO led operations, as appropriate. Their overall aim is to reduce the risk of conflict related sexual violence and improve response measures that take protection needs into consideration. We support the work of the NATO Special Representative on Women, Peace and Security in implementing the NATO Policy and Action Plan. We will continue to take opportunities to promote PSVI and UNSCR 1325 in NATO as and when they arise.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 15/07/2015 12:36:49 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4331 label Biography information for Baroness Helic