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1670432

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
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	HIV Infection: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support community-led efforts in other countries that focus on HIV prevention, awareness, and support for key affected populations, such as sex workers, LGBTQ+ communities, and people who use drugs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK remains a world leader in efforts to end the global AIDS epidemic and funds all key partners in the global AIDS response, including the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria.</p><p>The UK's investments, including to the WHO, help to ensure that people at high risk of HIV in the global south can access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and other HIV prevention and treatment services. WHO has recently published new guidelines on HIV, STI and viral hepatitis prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, which will support countries and local organisations in designing and implementing their HIV strategies and interventions.</p><p>Our recent pledge of £1 billion to the Global Fund will save over 1 million lives, including by providing antiretroviral therapy for 1.8 million people, HIV counselling and testing for 48 million people, and reaching 3 million members of key affected populations with prevention programs.</p><p>Our funding for the Robert Carr Fund and UNAIDS supports initiatives to empower local civil society and grassroots organisations, predominantly in the Global South, to increase access to HIV prevention, testing and care services, particularly for LGBT+ people.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL337 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:47:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1670433

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
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	HIV Infection: Disease Control
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to facilitate international knowledge exchange and collaboration to accelerate progress towards the global goals of ending new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths by 2030.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK remains a world leader in efforts to end the global AIDS epidemic and funds all key partners in the global AIDS response, including the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria.</p><p>The UK's investments, including to the WHO, help to ensure that people at high risk of HIV in the global south can access Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and other HIV prevention and treatment services. WHO has recently published new guidelines on HIV, STI and viral hepatitis prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, which will support countries and local organisations in designing and implementing their HIV strategies and interventions.</p><p>Our recent pledge of £1 billion to the Global Fund will save over 1 million lives, including by providing antiretroviral therapy for 1.8 million people, HIV counselling and testing for 48 million people, and reaching 3 million members of key affected populations with prevention programs.</p><p>Our funding for the Robert Carr Fund and UNAIDS supports initiatives to empower local civil society and grassroots organisations, predominantly in the Global South, to increase access to HIV prevention, testing and care services, particularly for LGBT+ people.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL336 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:47:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1668653

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
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	HIV Infection: Development Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to support community-led efforts in other countries that focus on HIV (1) prevention, (2) awareness, and (3) support for key affected populations, such as sex workers, LGBTQ+ communities, and people who use drugs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL89
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>Addressing stigma and discrimination and ensuring equality of access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services is critical to the global HIV response. Our funding to the Robert Carr Fund and to UNAIDS helps to support legal and policy reform to combat stigma and discrimination and to improve access to HIV services, including prevention, awareness and support services, for key populations, particularly LGBT+ communities. The UK is a champion for human rights. Our £1 billion pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria will support its Strategy which includes focus on addressing inequities and structural drivers of HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths including legal barriers.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/11/2023 17:17:18 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1668654

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
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	HIV Infection: Development Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration among countries to accelerate progress toward the global goals of ending new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths by 2030.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL90
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>The FCDO remains a key funder and political supporter of major multilateral organisations and global health institutions, including WHO, UNITAID, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and others, and engages closely with these partners to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration at every level to accelerate progress on the HIV epidemic. For example, we continue to invest core funding in UNAIDS which remains the global source of authoritative, comprehensive and disaggregated data and information on the global HIV epidemic. We also provide core funding to the WHO, which has recently published new guidelines on HIV, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, which will support countries and local organisations in designing and implementing their HIV strategies and interventions.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 23/11/2023 17:40:07 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1648994

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
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	Uganda: HIV Infection and LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what direct help they are providing to (1) HIV, and (2) LGBTQ+, organisations in Uganda.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL8903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>Through our contributions to the Global Fund, the UK is helping to tackle HIV/AIDS in Uganda by providing targeted prevention, testing and treatment services. This includes community outreach and the facilitation of drop-in centres that offer services such as legal and human rights, psychosocial and mental health support. The UK is the third largest donor to the Global Fund, having contributed £4.4 billion since its inception. Last year, the UK committed a further £1 billion over three years which will help reach three million members of key populations, such as LGBT+ groups, worldwide with prevention programmes.</p><p>The UK is appalled that the Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed into law in Uganda and strongly condemns the introduction of the death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'. This legislation undermines the protections and freedoms of all Ugandans and will serve only to increase the risk of violence, discrimination and persecution while setting back the fight against HIV/AIDs. The British High Commission in Kampala engages with a range of stakeholders in Uganda, including LGBT+ organisations, to understand the impact of the Act and to drive a co-ordinated response. We will continue to stand up for human rights and freedoms in Uganda and around the world.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 13/07/2023 15:36:44 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1416142

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
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	HIV Infection: International Cooperation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to accelerate progress to deliver on the UN 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to addressing HIV and AIDS through our development programming. This currently includes our funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, for UNAIDS, Unitaid and the Robert Carr Fund. These UK investments help countries to implement actions under the political declaration to prevent new HIV infections and stop AIDS related deaths. This June, the UK will host the Safe To Be Me conference in London. One of the key aims will be ensuring inclusive access to healthcare for LGBT+ people. The conference will bring together governments, businesses, civil society and international parliamentarians from around the world to share lessons and agree plans for action.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/02/2022 17:22:07 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1416143

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
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	Development Aid: HIV Infection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS Jeopardising Progress: Impact of the UK Government's aid cuts on HIV/AIDS worldwide, published on 21 September 2021; and what steps they are taking to mitigate the impact of the Overseas Development Assistance target spending reduction on efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group Report outlines the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global HIV/AIDS response based on surveys conducted by the Global Fund. The report highlights the support to the global HIV/AIDS through UK investments but does not attempt to attribute changes in global progress to UK funding levels. The report makes four recommendations for UK consideration, including making supplementary allocations to organisations working on the HIV response, community-led responses and research and development. The UK remains committed to addressing HIV and AIDS through our development programming. This currently includes our funding of £1.4 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and funding for UNAIDS, Unitaid and the Robert Carr Fund. Future funding, beyond our current commitments, will be determined as part of departmental business planning in line with departmental allocations announced in last year's Spending Review and guided by the approaches set out in the Health Systems Strengthening Position Paper and Ending Preventable Deaths approach.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 07/02/2022 17:31:55 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1416144

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
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	UNAIDS
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether continued close partnership with UNAIDS will play a role in their planned international development and global health strategies; and if so, how such a partnership would operate.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL5610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to a strong UNAIDS and we are fully engaged in the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board which recently agreed the new Global Aids Strategy 2021-2026. Our partnership with UNAIDS contributes to our goal to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children and to ensuring access to services for marginalised and vulnerable groups. Future funding to UNAIDS, beyond our current commitments, will be determined as part of departmental business planning in line with departmental allocations announced in last year's Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 31/01/2022 17:32:29 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1109277

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
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	Marriage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the recent decision by the government of the Cayman Islands to recognise LGBT relationships in law, what steps they are taking to ensure that LGBT citizens of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, Monserrat, and Northern Ireland have the right to enter into a same sex marriage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL14994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>After the Cayman Islands court judgement (which has been appealed by the Cayman Island Government) ten Overseas Territories have legal recognition and protection for same sex relationships. The British Overseas Territories are separate, largely self-governing jurisdictions with their own democratically elected representatives. Our relationship with the Overseas Territories is based on partnership and therefore as policy on marriage law is an area of devolved responsibility it should be for the territories to decide and legislate on. As has been demonstrated by recent LGBT cases, the Territories' justice mechanisms and processes should be allowed the space to address these matters. We are working to encourage those Territories that have not put in place arrangements to recognise and protect same sex relationships, to do so, and continue to engage with all the Overseas Territories to ensure that their legislation is compliant with their international human rights obligations. We continue to raise LGBT rights and broader human rights obligations consistently with the leaders of Overseas Territories - both bilaterally, and at the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Councils. This is also a matter that is raised by Governors' Offices.</p><p>As marriage is devolved in Northern Ireland, any question of reform to law or policy is rightly one for a devolved Executive and Assembly in Northern Ireland to carefully consider and debate. The Government would hope and encourage a restored Executive to progress legislation on this issue.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/04/2019 15:50:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

990136

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
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	Zelimkhan Bakaev
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to authorities in Chechnya regarding the disappearance of Zelim Bakeav in August 2017.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL10758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK remains deeply concerned by the disappearance of Zelim Bakaev and the persecution of many other individuals in Chechnya due to their sexual orientation. Together with our international partners, we continue to raise our serious concerns with the Russian authorities in a number of multilateral fora – including the UN, Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the release and safe return of all those abducted and urging them to investigate fully and bring those responsible to justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 26/10/2018 10:53:44 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker