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514306

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the process of resettling 20,000 refugees by 2020 fulfils the criteria of the UNHCR Integration Programme outlined in its 2013 report <i>The Integration of Resettled Refugees</i>, including provisions for pre-departure information, initial reception, orientation and documentation, social support, employment support, language training, education, healthcare, housing and income support.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL7796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>The UK has worked closely with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on both the development and delivery of its Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.</p><p>Through the International Organisation for Migration the UK offers cultural orientation pre-departure to refugees being resettled to the UK. Upon arrival, local authorities are funded to provide refugees with a 12 month support package tailored to their individual needs which includes; accommodation, support in addressing any medical and social care needs, integration assistance and English language tuition.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/04/2016 15:22:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511844

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	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 12 April (HL7328), whether they are on track to fulfil their pledge to accept 20,000 refugees to the UK before the end of the present Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL7604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>We are continuing to work productively with local authorities and International Partners to deliver the Government’s target to settle 20,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this Parliament.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The last set of statistics, published on 25 February 2016 showed that in 2015, 1,194 Syrians were relocated to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme, including 1,085 who arrived in the last quarter of 2015.</p><p>These numbers will be updated each quarter. The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 26 May 2016 and will cover the period January – March 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/04/2016 10:57:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511516

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the correction by Lord Bates on 24 March to his Written Answer on 19 October 2015 (HL2297), why they gave incorrect figures for the number of young asylum seekers deported on reaching their 18th birthday in their initial answer, and why it took them five months to correct those figures.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL7558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The incorrect figures given in the original response to Question HL2297 resulted from the use of an incorrect definition which excluded former Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children who now had linked dependants and cases made prior to October 2006. This error was identified following the correction of PQ 13206 in February 2016, which prompted a review of other related answers resulting in correction of this and five related House of Commons answers.</p><p>Such mistakes are rare and when they occur they are taken very seriously. It is regrettable that human error caused the original response to be incorrect. Improvements have been put in place to ensure that such mistakes will not be made in future. The appropriate definition has been reviewed, confirmed and made clear to the officials involved.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/04/2016 12:30:09 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

511515

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Calais
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken in the light of the report by Help Refugees in March that 129 unaccompanied children are unaccounted for in the Calais refugee camp.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL7557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the French Government to ensure that unaccompanied children in Calais and Dunkirk quickly receive the support and protection they need.</p><p>The UK-France Joint Declaration of 20 August 2015 committed the two governments to establishing a permanent official contact group focused on ensuring that the provisions of the Dublin III Regulation are used efficiently and effectively, including the provisions on family unity.</p><p>As a result a Home Office official has recently been seconded to the Interior Ministry’s Dublin Unit in Paris in part to assist with the identification of potential requests for the UK to take charge of asylum seeking children in France and to bring them into the Dublin Regulation procedure without delay.</p><p>In order to receive the proper support they need and to be eligible under Dublin, children must first make an asylum for application in France.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/04/2016 12:29:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

432384

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Trains: Sanitation
	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 Ahmad of Wimbledon on 19 November (HL3374), what assessment they have made of the mechanisms that are available to passengers in order to bring pressure on franchised train operators to ensure that appropriate toilet facilities are provided.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is continually trying to improve passenger experience both on train and at station. Train operators have commitments in their franchise agreements for achieving improved levels of customer experience standards and accessibility, including appropriate toilet facilities.</p><br /><p>During the consultation phase of the franchise competition passengers and other stakeholder groups have the opportunity to contribute towards these specifications.</p><br /><p>During the life of the franchise, operators are measured against the national rail passenger survey scores which measures against the cleanliness of toilet facilities on trains and at stations.</p><br /><p>Above this during the life of the franchise, operators are encouraged to seek continuous improvement to their service offering which government supports through various funding opportunities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 08/12/2015 17:38:31 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

426435

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Trains: Sanitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they take any steps to monitor whether lavatories on franchised train operator services are in working order throughout train journeys; whether any sanctions have been imposed on any franchisee as a result of that monitoring in the last two years; and if so, what those sanctions were.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL3374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>We are investing record amounts in the railways in order to give passengers better journeys. We expect the industry to deliver the best possible customer experience every day, including the provision of appropriate toilet facilities.</p><br /><p>Whilst there are no regimes that separately monitor lavatory quality provided on trains by franchised train operators, the Invitation To Tender for the new Greater Anglia franchise is piloting three challenging customer service targets to be monitored through mystery shopper exercises and passenger surveys. One of these Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets is “presentation of facilities”, which includes questions about “the cleanliness of the toilet facilities” and “the condition of on board toilets” amongst other aspects. Financial penalties will apply if the KPI targets are not met. Various quality of service regimes exist in other Franchise Agreements for monitoring and managing overall train interior quality, some of which carry financial penalties. The National Rail Passenger Survey also reports specifically on “On Train Toilet Facilities” for every operator in its twice yearly survey.</p><br /><p>No sanctions have been imposed specifically in regard to train toilets.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/11/2015 12:19:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno