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1600566

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	China: Cybercrime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many cyber attacks against UK state entities or parliamentarians have been attributed to China with medium or high confidence in each of the past three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The UK government has strong defences and resilient systems in place to counter the threat posed by malicious cyber activity. Alongside our allies, the UK government has publicly attributed malicious cyber activity to China where we have had compelling evidence to do so and judged this to be in the UK's national interest. The UK has joined international partners in exposing Chinese malicious cyber activity, most recently Chinese state-backed actors' responsibility for the Microsoft Exchange Server attack in early 2021. But the government has not publicly attributed responsibility to the Chinese state for malicious cyber activity against UK state entities or parliamentarians.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 16:53:12 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1600579

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Windsor Framework
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which parts of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland have been superseded by the Windsor Framework; and to what extent in each case.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL6035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The Windsor Framework restores the balance needed to uphold the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in all its dimensions. It puts in place a new legal and constitutional framework, changing the text of the treaty and scrapping more than 1,700 pages of EU rules on internal UK trade.</p><p>While we have been upfront that this does not remove EU rules entirely in Northern Ireland, the less than 3 percent of EU rules which remain are the minimum necessary to maintain maximum market access and free trade for NI businesses.</p><p>The changes we have made include the Stormont Brake, which enables amended or replaced EU rules to be vetoed where they would have significant and lasting effects on everyday lives. This is in addition to the existing veto the UK has for new EU rules. This ends the automatic presumption of dynamic alignment of EU rules.</p><p>The draft legal instruments underpinning the package are set out in full on the Government's website.</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-windsor-framework</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 17:09:27 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1600590

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	EU Law: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what would happen in Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework if the UK diverged and changed its regulations from those in the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL6046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The Windsor Framework safeguards the UK internal market and its core principles of market access. It removes constraints on UK-wide policymaking on alcohol duty, enabling NI to benefit from cuts on the duty on a pint of beer. There is a brand new green lane maintaining UK food safety standards, meaning the same food on supermarket shelves in NI and GB. Medicines will be provided across the UK on the basis of licences from UK authorities. Northern Ireland will now be able to take full advantage of the UK's new trade deals around the world and will remain out of the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy.</p><p>Inherent in this new way forward is the prospect of significant divergence between the two distinct economies on the island of Ireland - from food and drink to plants and pets, building on the existing differences in every area of economic and political life such as services, migration, currency and taxation. This will require increased market surveillance North-South in some instances to ensure that there is no abuse of these arrangements to move goods across the international border from Northern Ireland into Ireland, and new requirements on Ireland and other EU Member States to ensure that sensitive products such as food are not moved illegally across that international border.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 17:25:03 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1600591

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	European Court of Justice: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, whether the European Court of Justice will have a role in Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL6047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>We have accepted that Northern Ireland will, until the people of Northern Ireland vote otherwise, continue to have special access to the EU market. The minimal number of EU laws that remain - less than 3 percent - safeguard maximum free trade and market access for NI firms. That is something businesses have specifically asked us to protect. We have publicly acknowledged the fact that the European Court of Justice is the final arbiter on matters of EU law.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 16:59:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1600593

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the parts of Article VI of the Acts of Union 1800 that were suspended or modified by the effect of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland will cease to be suspended or modified following the implementation of the Windsor Framework.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL6049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>Through the Windsor Framework we have established a new legal framework of democratic consent and control. This ensures the smooth flow of internal UK trade; protects Northern Ireland's place in our Union; and safeguards sovereignty and addresses the democratic deficit in Northern Ireland. These changes ensure that Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom is fully respected, as expressed through the Acts of Union and the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in their modern contexts. And we will underpin this new framework through amendments to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to provide constitutional and democratic guarantees for the people of Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 17:23:28 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1600595

registered interest
date	01/03/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	EU Law: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Stormont Assembly Brake in the Windsor Framework can block the application of new EU laws in Northern Ireland in practice.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL6051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>The Stormont Brake enables amended or replaced EU laws to be vetoed and permanently disapplied by the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom already has a veto on new EU laws applying in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 15/03/2023 17:23:56 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown