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1149834

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Ali Hajji
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain about Bahraini human rights activist Ali Al-Hajee and his access to (1) dental implants and dental surgery, and (2) unobstructed family visitation; and whether they intend to take any further steps in relation to his case.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of the case of Ali Al Hajee, and have raised the case at a senior level with the Government of Bahrain. The Government of Bahrain have made clear in public statements that access to medical care, including dental, for those in detention is guaranteed by the Constitution of Bahrain.</p><p>We encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to raise them with the appropriate Bahraini human rights oversight body. We continue to encourage the oversight bodies in Bahrain to carry out thorough and swift investigations into any such claims.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 29/10/2019 11:56:55 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

732073

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent of the rise in the number of proxy votes being applied for in recent elections in Northern Ireland; and what action they are taking to ensure fraud is detected and avoided.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The administration of proxy voting is an operational matter for the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland who will conduct a routine post-election review of all administrative procedures. The Electoral Commission will also report on the administration of the election in due course. The Government will consider any recommendations about dealing with fraud from the Chief Electoral Officer and the Electoral Commission carefully.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 03/07/2017 15:10:55 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

519561

registered interest
date	19/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Absent Voting: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether improving the accessibility and clarity of the rules covering family reunion, and ensuring that those rules were more flexibility applied, would prevent perilous journeys being undertaken by children seeking asylum in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2016 answer text <p>Our family reunion policy is intended to allow immediate family members, who formed part of a family unit before the refugee fled their country, to reunite in the UK with the refugee and rebuild their lives together. Those family members can apply from the country in which they are resident.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/05/2016 14:32:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

347582

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
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	United Nations: South Korea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the proposed United Nations field office in South Korea will monitor human rights violations in North Korea; and what is their assessment of the state of progress in establishing that office.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The UN Human Rights Council mandated the UN field office in Seoul to monitor and document the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in resolution A/HRC/RES/25/25. This resolution also mandates the field office to enhance the engagement and capacity-building of various stakeholders and to maintain the visibility of the human rights situation in the DPRK. The UK supported this resolution and looks forward to the opening of the field office. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva have advised us that the field office should become operational this month.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/06/2015 15:53:22 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

60537

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	Diego Garcia
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 25 April 2013 (WA 447– 48), with regard to the use of Diego Garcia for rendition flights, what is the latest situation in relation to such flights.
tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
uin	HL126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Aside from the two cases of rendition through Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory) in 2002, there have been no other instances in which US intelligence flights landed in the UK, our overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies, with a detainee on board since 11 September 2001.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 17/06/2014 14:49:43 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft