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1129484

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date	04/06/2019
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	Omar al-Bashir
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) locate, (2) identify, and (3) freeze, any UK bank accounts which are being used to hold funds embezzled by Omar al-Bashir.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>​Omar al-Bashir is not subject to financial measures in the UK. The Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation, part of Her Majesty's Treasury, maintains a list of entities subject to such measures which is publically available. The onus is on financial institutions to comply with all bilateral and multilateral measures.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2019 14:16:24 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1129513

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Syria: Islamic State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether it is part of the purpose of the Global Coalition Against Daesh to uphold United States sanctions on Syria.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL15998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The purpose of the Global Coalition is to degrade and defeat Daesh. As part of this work, the Global Coalition is engaged in a comprehensive campaign to disrupt and prevent Daesh from raising, moving and using funds. Enforcing bilateral sanctions on Syria is not part of the Coalition's mandate.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2019 14:15:12 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

1129522

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the fears expressed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East concerning the food supply for Gaza from June onwards; and about the approval for the taking of new Palestinian land for the Hawara and Al-Aroub by-passes in the Occupied West Bank.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL16007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>​The UK remains concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Our Embassy in Tel Aviv has carried out demarches on the Israel authorities to go further in easing movement and access restrictions on Gaza. We would also oppose any steps to take further Palestinian land. We regularly raise our concerns on the issue of settlements with the Government of Israel and urge it to reverse its policy of settlement expansion.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2019 14:49:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1129523

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Gaza: Fisheries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel about the restoration of the full 20-mile coastal fishing zone at Gaza.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL16008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>​We regularly raise with the Government of Israel the urgent need to ease all access and movement restrictions on Gaza. This includes easing fishing limits which would help to restore the fishing industry.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2019 14:32:50 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1129529

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Saudi Arabia: Political Prisoners
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 29 May (HL15767), when they will assess the number of political detainees in Saudi Arabia; and what plans they have to review their policy of declining to intervene with the government of Saudi Arabia on allowing access to such detainees by independent monitors.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL16014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>We closely monitor political detainees in Saudi Arabia, including women’s rights defenders. We raise concerns regularly and freely, using a range of Ministerial and diplomatic channels, including our Ambassador and Embassy team in Riyadh. The Foreign Secretary raised the detention of women’s rights defenders during his visit to Saudi Arabia in March. The British Government cannot intervene in independent monitoring or investigation.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 18/06/2019 13:05:36 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd