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date	28/02/2019
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	Europe: Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether (1) the governments of Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, and (2) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organisation for Migration, and the EU are adequately dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in accordance with international law; and if not, whether they intend to hold discussions with those governments and organisations to propose possible improvements.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL14145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Government has not carried out such assessments. However, we continue to assess more broadly current levels of migration, asylum and migration capabilities, conditions for migrants themselves and the impact on communities. Where it is appropriate to provide support, the UK has, for example, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, made available £500,000 to support a project delivered through the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to contribute to local governments' efforts to enhance community stabilization and social cohesion in targeted locations in Una Sana Canton, following the recent increase in migrant arrivals. In Serbia, we have spent over £500,000 to improve asylum management systems by providing technical assistance and building capacity, again delivered through the IOM. Consistent with the UK's 'whole of route' approach to tackling irregular migration, we hold regular discussions, in both multilateral and bilateral settings, with a range of international partners to promote and uphold human rights, humanitarian conditions and other standards in the design and delivery of policies affecting migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and would raise any concerns in this context.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/03/2019 14:27:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

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date	27/02/2019
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	Europe: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what actions can be taken to speed up the transfer of asylum seekers and refugees from the Aegean Islands to mainland Greece for assessment and resettlement, and by whom; what measures they consider should be taken to improve healthcare and support for refugees both in Greece and elsewhere in south-east Europe; and what assessment they have made of the level of involvement of the International Organisation for Migration in providing support to such refugees.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL14094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Government is committed to supporting Greece's efforts to manage migration effectively, which includes working with the Greek Government to support the most vulnerable.</p><p>The Greek Government is continuing to reduce overcrowding by transferring vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers to accommodation that is more suitable on the mainland. On behalf of EU Member States, the EU Commission is working with, and pressing, the Greek authorities to speed up this process. This is alongside the Commission's continuing wider efforts to make overall improvements, including to the Greek appeals and returns processes.</p><p>The Government continues to offer support to alleviate the pressures on the islands and make sustainable improvements to the migration system. The Immigration Minister and Development Secretary visited the migrant camps last summer to assess the conditions and engage with the Greek authorities and other agencies on the ground. UK support includes the deployments of interpreters to the Greek Reception and Identification Service on the Greek islands. The interpreters help the Greek Government in processing arriving migrants, and specifically help facilitate the identification of migrants who are vulnerable to ensure they receive support as quickly as possible.</p><p>More widely, we have stepped up our efforts to enable the most vulnerable unaccompanied children, where it is in their best interest, to relocate from Europe to the UK, by removing the date criterion in the Dubs Amendment. This has meant that participating States such as Greece can now refer the most vulnerable children regardless of when they arrived into Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/03/2019 16:17:41 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton