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1002492

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what role, if any, the Gulf National Security Secretariat Implementation Group (NSSIG) has within the Cabinet Office; and how the role and responsibilities of the NSSIG differs from those of the Integrated Delivery Board.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The requested information is not readily available. The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong><em> </em></strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">National Security Strategy and Implementation Groups (NSSIGs) were established after the 2017 National Security Capability Review to support the delivery of national security priority programmes, including by better utilising the full range of national security capabilities. Each NSSIG is chaired by a Senior Responsible Official (SRO), who is accountable to the National Security Council.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Gulf Delivery Board has not met since the establishment of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG, which subsumed its primary roles and responsibilities in April 2018. Cabinet Office officials are members of the Gulf &amp; Iran NSSIG and attend all meetings. The Cabinet Office also provides some secretariat support to the NSSIG, alongside that provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/11/2018 16:57:28 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2018 17:09:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 86171 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002490

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Najah Ahmed Yousif
	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 upholding of the three year sentence of the Bahraini political activist, Najah Yusuf, following reports that her confession was extracted under torture and sexual assault.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to my answer of 23 October 2018 (PQ HL10585). I understand there are avenues of appeal open to Najah Yusuf. We will continue to closely follow this case.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002487

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Bahrain: Nationality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made for the number of individuals whose Bahraini citizenship has been revoked by the government of Bahrain leaving them stateless so far this year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>We have been clear in our concerns about the revocation of nationality where it renders a person stateless, and we have raised this at a senior level with the Government of Bahrain. We do not hold figures for the number of individuals affected in Bahrain.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/11/2018 15:40:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002488

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Bahrain: Technical Assistance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they have provided the Bahraini Council of Representatives Secretariat from the technical assistance programme; what assessment they have made of the role of that body in the prevention of opposition parties from participating in the elections in May 2018; and, in the light of any such assessment, whether providing it with funding is consistent with the UK’s international obligations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>​The Government works with a number of implementation partners and beneficiaries to support Bahraini-led reform. These programmes aim to support progress on building effective and accountable institutions, strengthening the rule of law, and justice reform. All of our work is in line with international standards, and aims to share the UK's expertise and experience. Any training provided by, on or behalf of, the British Government fully complies with our domestic and international human rights obligations. The UK continues to encourage the Government of Bahrain to ensure upcoming elections are transparent, fair and inclusive.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/11/2018 15:40:41 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002491

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Najah Ahmed Yousif
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to Formula One to encourage it to abide by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, following the Bahraini court’s decision to uphold the three year sentence of political activist Najah Yusuf, for criticism of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government has not had conversations with Formula One on the details of the case of Najah Yusuf. I would refer the Noble Lord to the recent statement made by the Bahraini Government advising that the charges and conviction had no relation to the Bahrain Grand Prix, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/11/2018 16:38:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1002489

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Integrated Activity Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which Government departments received funding in the last financial year from the Integrated Activity Fund to carry out their technical assistance programmes in (1) the Gulf, and (2) Bahrain.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>​Amongst the range of activities supported through the Integrated Activity Fund, there is one technical assistance programme, which is in Bahrain and is managed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/11/2018 15:29:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1010139

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Bahrain: Detainees
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 26 July 2017 (HL844 and HL845), 8 January (HL4425 and HL4427), 8 May (HL7180 and HL7183), 11 May (HL7811), 18 June (HL8316), 25 June (HL8576 and HL8577), 4 July (HL8871), 25 July (HL9605), 23 October (HL10580, HL10581, HL10582, HL10583, HL10584, and HL10585), and 5 November (HL10908, HL10909, HL10910, and HL10961), what assessment they have made of the UN Committee against Torture’s concluding remarks on the second and third periodic reports of Bahrain, published on 29 May 2017, and its concerns that the Bahraini bodies to which people may file complaints about torture or ill-treatment are “not independent”, have “little or no effect”, and provide “negligible information regarding the outcome of their activities”; and, in the light of those concerns, why they “encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the relevant human rights oversight bodies”.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>We believe that the oversight bodies in Bahrain, including the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman, are structured so that they are able to operate independently from the organisations that they oversee. While these bodies still have more to do, they have already demonstrated their abilities including through the prosecution of more than 70 police officers accused of human rights abuses.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/12/2018 14:20:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012538

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	DeepMind
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what independent verification is in place to make sure that the NHS data handled by DeepMind Health will be used only for appropriate purposes now that DeepMind Health is no longer a separate subsidiary of Google but has been fully integrated.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>We will work with regulators including the Health Research Agency, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the Information Commissioner’s Office, and with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to ensure anything that happens as a result of the transfer of Streams respects patients’ privacy and complies fully with the law.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 04/12/2018 14:21:40 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012537

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	DeepMind
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what information was provided to NHS patients whose data are held by DeepMind Health before that company was integrated into Google rather than being a separate subsidiary; and whether patients gave informed consent for the handling of their data to be changed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>At this moment in time no contracts have been signed or amended, or other arrangements put in place, and the Streams team have been open with us at the Department about their plans for the transition.</p><p>National Health Service trusts are the data controller and retain the responsibility for how the data is used and for gaining patient consent for any change of use.</p><p>We have received assurances from DeepMind that no Personally Identifiable Data has been transferred as a result of this corporate restructure.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/12/2018 15:10:17 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1012536

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	DeepMind
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to Google about the abolition of DeepMind Health’s independent review committee following the integration of DeepMind Health into Google; and what assessment they have made of the impact on the confidentiality of NHS patients’ data of DeepMind Health no longer being a separate subsidiary of Google.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL11728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>We will seek a full explanation from Google about its plans, including why they have halted the independent review panel and how they intend to replace this function.</p><p>We will work with regulators, including the Information Commissioner’s Office, and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to ensure anything that happens as a result of the transfer of Streams respects patients’ privacy and complies fully with the law.</p><p>I met with DeepMind recently and raised this issue with them.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 06/12/2018 15:09:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven