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1220839

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Israel: Visas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a distinction is made between Israelis who live in Israel and those who live in the Occupied Palestinian Territories when deciding whether Israelis are eligible for the six-month visa waiver to the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL6532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>Nationals or citizens of Israel who hold a full Israeli passport do not require a visa to come to the UK as a visitor or for any other purpose, for less than six months. Each applicant is assessed against a set of suitability and eligibility criteria under the Immigration Rules. Applicants are considered on their merits, regardless of where they live.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 20/07/2020 15:51:13 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1221731

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Family Proceedings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many legal challenges they have pursued in relation to the deportation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the Family Court in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL6589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The SSHD’s role in family court proceedings which concern female genital mutilation (FGM) is limited. Often the SSHD is joined to proceedings in the Family Court so that she can be asked to disclose Home Office documents in those proceedings.</p><p /><p>The function of deciding whether the SSHD has acted lawfully in refusing an asylum claim raising FGM issues or indeed in setting removal directions for an individual whose asylum claim has been refused will normally lie with First Tier Tribunal and Upper Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).</p><p> </p><p>The SSHD brought an appeal in the case of A (A child) solely to determine a point of law, namely to ascertain the role of the Family Court in assessing the risk of FGM in the country of return, where that risk had already been assessed by the SSHD with all appeals dismissed by the immigration courts, and permission for judicial review refused.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 21/07/2020 16:09:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1221733

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Children
	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 Williams of Trafford on 16 March (HL2071), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, how many reports of cases of female genital mutilation, or suspected female genital mutilation, they have received under the mandatory reporting for under-18s duty in the Serious Crime Act 2015 since that Act received Royal Assent.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL6591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. On 31 October 2015 the Government introduced an FGM mandatory reporting duty requiring professionals to report all ‘known’ cases of FGM in under 18s to the police.</p><p> </p><p>Reports under the mandatory reporting duty are made to the police, rather than to the Home Office. Previously, we did not collect data on the number of FGM cases recorded under the duty. However, to improve understanding of the prevalence of ‘honour-based’ abuse, including FGM, the Government amended the police Annual Data Requirement to require police forces, from April 2019, to record where a crime has been committed in the context of preserving the ‘honour’ of a family or community. The collection includes, but is not limited to, crimes of FGM. This new collection is also capturing offences of FGM which are reported to the police under the mandatory reporting duty. Subject to data quality checks, we expect the first dataset under this new mandatory ADR collection to be published by autumn 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office keeps the legislation relating to FGM under review, including through discussion with statutory partners and other stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6592 question first answered 21/07/2020 16:12:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1221734

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures are in place to monitor and assess the effectiveness of the Mandatory Reporting of Female Genital Mutilation duty, which came into force on 31 October 2015.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL6592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. On 31 October 2015 the Government introduced an FGM mandatory reporting duty requiring professionals to report all ‘known’ cases of FGM in under 18s to the police.</p><p> </p><p>Reports under the mandatory reporting duty are made to the police, rather than to the Home Office. Previously, we did not collect data on the number of FGM cases recorded under the duty. However, to improve understanding of the prevalence of ‘honour-based’ abuse, including FGM, the Government amended the police Annual Data Requirement to require police forces, from April 2019, to record where a crime has been committed in the context of preserving the ‘honour’ of a family or community. The collection includes, but is not limited to, crimes of FGM. This new collection is also capturing offences of FGM which are reported to the police under the mandatory reporting duty. Subject to data quality checks, we expect the first dataset under this new mandatory ADR collection to be published by autumn 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office keeps the legislation relating to FGM under review, including through discussion with statutory partners and other stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6591 question first answered 21/07/2020 16:12:36 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1228134

	registered interest
	date	28/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Israel
	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 Williams of Trafford on 30 June (HL5815), whether (1) Arab, and (2) Jewish, citizens of Israel are treated in the same way when visiting the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2020 answer text <p>Citizens of Israel require leave to enter the UK and are subject to the requirements of the Immigration Rules. When making an application for entry clearance overseas, or for entry at the border, all Israeli citizens are considered individually under the rules and no distinction is made on the basis of their place of residence.</p><p>Citizens of Israel holding a national passport do not require a visa to visit the UK. All visitors to the UK are assessed against a set of suitability and eligibility criteria, under the Immigration Rules. The rules apply to all visitors, whether they are applying for a visa in advance of travel or are applying for entry at the UK border.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL7478 question first answered 11/08/2020 11:26:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1228135

	registered interest
	date	28/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Israeli Settlements
	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 Williams of Trafford on 30 June (HL5815), whether citizens of Israel living in the occupied territories of Palestine receive the same treatment on entry to the UK as those who live in Israel.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2020 answer text <p>Citizens of Israel require leave to enter the UK and are subject to the requirements of the Immigration Rules. When making an application for entry clearance overseas, or for entry at the border, all Israeli citizens are considered individually under the rules and no distinction is made on the basis of their place of residence.</p><p>Citizens of Israel holding a national passport do not require a visa to visit the UK. All visitors to the UK are assessed against a set of suitability and eligibility criteria, under the Immigration Rules. The rules apply to all visitors, whether they are applying for a visa in advance of travel or are applying for entry at the UK border.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL7477 question first answered 11/08/2020 11:26:07 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1228138

	registered interest
	date	28/07/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Honour Based Violence
	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 Williams of Trafford on 21 July (HL6592), how many cases of honour based abuse were reported in (1) 2019, and (2) 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2020 answer text <p>So-called honour-based abuse is unacceptable and the Government is committed to tackling it, through, for example, part-funding the national “honour”-based abuse helpline and working closely with the police and charities.</p><p>Statistics on Honour based Abuse have been collected by the Home Office from police forces in England and Wales since April 2019. The data for 2019-20 is expected to be published as official statistics by autumn 2020.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 11/08/2020 11:25:32 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1230884

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women and girls in the UK they estimate have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C); how many women and girls were treated in the UK for matters related to FGM/C in the year to March; of those, how many were born in the UK; what assessment they have made of those figures; and what plans, if any, they have (1) to cut funding to, and (2) to close, centres in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>FGM is a crime and it is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls.</p><p>In 2015, a City University and Equality Now study (part funded by the Home Office), estimated that 137,000 women and girls who had migrated to England and Wales were living with the consequences of FGM, and approximately 60,000 girls aged 0-14 were born in England and Wales to mothers who had undergone FGM.</p><p>NHS Digital publish quarterly and annual statistics on FGM. The April 2019 to March 2020 annual report shows that during that period 6,590 individual women and girls had an attendance at an NHS Trust or GP practice in England at which FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was undertaken and 205 of these women and girls were known to have been born in the UK (all data is rounded to the nearest 5). The full report can be found here: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/female-genital-mutilation/april-2019---march-2020</p><p>We have no plans to cut funding to or to close centres for FGM in the UK.</p><p>NHS England &amp; NHS Improvement and local bodies continue to fund healthcare services for women and girls who have undergone FGM, as well as prevention services. These activities are being delivered on a day to day basis following the successful delivery, by the DHSC, of the FGM Prevention Programme – which delivered systems, training and guidance to improve how the NHS responds to the health needs of women and girls who have undergone FGM.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 17/09/2020 15:32:04 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1228017

	registered interest
	date	27/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial support they plan to give to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew to help it to address any deficit arising as a result of the restrictions put in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL7403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2020 answer text <p>Defra has regular meetings with Kew Gardens about the impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak. There are significant impacts on Kew’s operations and finances, mainly as a result of having to close the Kew and Wakehurst Place sites to the public for a period during lockdown, and a staggered return to full operations is anticipated through 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Kew has reopened to the public under a carefully planned approach and is now able to generate visitor income as a result, although at a significantly lower level than would normally be anticipated. The operational facilities are being kept under review with a view to maximising visitor access within social distancing guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>Kew has taken financial mitigation measures to offset in part the loss of income, including reducing costs, postponing investment plans and use of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under optimistic scenario planning of steady growth in visitor numbers and associated income and no second lockdown or related restrictions, Kew’s in-year operating deficit would result in a 25% reduction in total income for 2020/21, which will be funded by Kew drawing down its unrestricted reserves.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with Kew to monitor the situation and assess any future challenges.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 10/08/2020 09:58:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1224176

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	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	Jerusalem: Religious Freedom
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the decision by a court in Jerusalem to reject the request by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate to cancel the sale of three properties to Ateret Cohanim, what assessment they have made of the impact of that decision on religious freedom in Jerusalem.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL6816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2020 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of the decision on religious freedom in Jerusalem.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/07/2020 10:32:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge