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752455

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date	17/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the benefits and costs to the UK of membership of the EU Satellite Centre.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2017 answer text <p>​The EU Satellite Centre produces satellite imagery and analysis in support of EU missions and operations in fulfilment of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy. The UK is able to draw on the Centre’s output for defence and security purposes. This year the UK’s financial contribution is approximately 2.17 million Euros.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 31/07/2017 14:42:21 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

525088

registered interest
date	14/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many detainees have reportedly been sexually assaulted or raped inside Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre since Serco took over its operation.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>Serco, the private supplier at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre (IRC), took over the centre’s operation in February 2007. Since 2008, the date from which local records have been collated centrally, there have been twenty three allegations of sexual assault or rape made by detainees against staff. This includes two allegations of rape, of which one was unsubstantiated and one is subject to continuing criminal proceedings. This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.</p><p>All complaints made by detainees at an IRC are investigated by the IRC supplier in accordance with Detention Services Order 03/2015. Any allegations of serious misconduct made by a detainee against staff at an IRC are also referred to the Home Office Professional Standards Unit for investigation. Where a detainee, or someone on behalf of a detainee, alleges that a member of staff has committed a sexual offence against them the police will automatically be notified, even if the detainee does not wish the matter to be reported or to make a formal complaint.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 16/06/2016 14:04:48 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

523709

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Carer's Allowance
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 3 June (HL311), whether one of the ideologies they are directly challenging is Wahhabism.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2016 answer text <p>The Counter-Extremism Strategy set outs our approach to tackling extremist ideologies. We will challenge all those groups or individuals who vocally or actively oppose our fundamental values, who seek to promote, encourage and spread intolerance of individuals of different faith and beliefs. We are clear that this approach tackles all forms of extremism: violent and non violent, Islamist and neo-Nazi.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/06/2016 12:24:41 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

521454

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Students: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have evaluated the possible risks to national security and social cohesion of the spread of the Wahhabi ideology.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2016 answer text <p>HM Governement’s Counter Extremism Strategy and Counter – Terrorism strategy, CONTEST, set out approach to tackling the full range of factors that allow extremist and terrorist groups to grow and flourish. These include directly challenging ideologies, including those which have a theological basis.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 03/06/2016 12:40:17 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

521455

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to protect British girls in the Dawoodi Bohra community from female genital mutilation, in the light of the sermon by Supreme Leader Mufaddal Saifuddin on 25 April urging that all girls must undergo that procedure.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (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>We will not stop FGM until we have changed attitudes within communities. The Government works closely with a range of community and faith groups, including Muslim women's groups, to tackle FGM. Over 350 faith leaders from all the major faiths have signed a declaration condemning FGM. They have declared that it is not required by their religions and is a form of child abuse. The declaration makes clear that all religions will work together to end FGM for good. We continue to work with community organisations and survivors through the Governments FGM Unit's stakeholder group and outreach programme to drive this work forward.</p><p>In 2014 the Government ran a national communications campaign to raise awareness. We also funded 29 community engagement projects, including a network of community champions, who are reaching thousands of women and girls affected by FGM, and, importantly, their families. The work of these projects has included training for teachers, awareness sessions in local mosques, and the establishment of a new national website for, and by, young people giving information about how to prevent FGM. The Department for Communities and Local Government has established a network of community champions which is operating in London, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham. Champions are working with local people to address the myths that sustain FGM and to help keep girls safe.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/06/2016 10:50:04 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

448122

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
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 25 January (HL5200), whether they have had regard to the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies in Britain as part of their work on their Counter-Extremism Strategy.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL5512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>We published our Counter Extremism Strategy in October 2015 which sets out a range of measures to deal with the broad challenge of extremism. We have placed a duty on specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being radicalised.</p><p>We consider vocal or active opposition to our fundamental values as extremist, whatever guise these are expressed under. This includes when religions are hijacked by those wishing to promote extremism. As my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister said in July last year “extremist ideology is not true Islam”.</p><p>HM Government’s Counter Extremism Strategy and counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, set out our approach to tackling the full range of factors that allow extremist and terrorist groups to grow and flourish. These include directly challenging ideologies, including those which have a theological basis.</p><p>The Prime Minister recently commissioned a review into the funding of extremism in the UK. This will include an assessment funding that comes from overseas. The review is due to report in spring 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 04/02/2016 15:28:02 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

445790

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
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 11 January (HL4752 and HL4753) and 18 January (HL4957), whether they regard as matters of concern in countering extremist ideologies the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies in Britain, and funding from overseas for that teaching.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL5200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>We consider any vocal or active opposition to our fundamental values as extremist, whatever guise these are expressed under. This includes when religions are hijacked by those wishing to promote extremism. As my rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister said in July last year “extremist ideology is not true Islam”.</p><p>Because of these concerns our Government has taken significant steps to counter extremism. We published our Counter Extremism Strategy in October 2015 which sets out a range of measures to deal with the broad challenge of extremism. We have placed a duty on specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being radicalised. This includes schools, colleges and universities. It is also why the Prime Minister recently commissioned a review into the funding of extremism in the UK, including funding from overseas.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 25/01/2016 17:42:38 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

444349

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
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 11 January (HL4752 and HL4753), whether they regard the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies in Britain, and its funding from overseas, as creating a risk of extremism threatening national security.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>As noted in the recent National Security Strategy, extremism divides communities and weakens the social fabric of our country, and extremist ideas are often used to try to justify terrorism.</p><p>Anyone promoting the use of violence to promote any ideology, or using any ideology to incite violence and terrorism will have the full force of our laws brought against them. Countering extremist ideologies that create division in our country is the fundamental aim behind the new Counter Extremism Strategy.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/01/2016 15:34:50 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

439676

registered interest
date	21/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
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 17 December (HL4279), whether they plan to collect information about overseas funding of the preaching and teaching of Wahhabism in mosques and Muslim education bodies.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>HM Government’s Counter Extremism Strategy and counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, set out our approach to tackling the full range of factors that allow extremist and terrorist groups to grow and flourish. These include directly challenging ideologies, including those which have a theological basis. The review into funding of extremism in the UK will include funding that comes from overseas.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL4753 question first answered 11/01/2016 15:05:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

439677

registered interest
date	21/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islam
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of any correlation between Wahhabism and extremism and terrorism in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL4753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>HM Government’s Counter Extremism Strategy and counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, set out our approach to tackling the full range of factors that allow extremist and terrorist groups to grow and flourish. These include directly challenging ideologies, including those which have a theological basis. The review into funding of extremism in the UK will include funding that comes from overseas.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL4752 question first answered 11/01/2016 15:05:00 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill