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143446

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
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	Middle East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in what ways they are working to increase dialogue and co-operation between Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran in relation to the current problems of Syria and Iraq.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>As part of our efforts to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and find a solution to the problems of Iraq and Syria we are encouraging cooperation and engaging with countries across the region. On 10 November the UK convened a meeting of the Core Group of the Friends of Syria which includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. We reaffirmed our commitment to a genuine political transition in co-operation with the UN Special Envoy; supporting the National Coalition to deliver services and protect the Syrian people; and strengthening measures against the Syrian regime including restricting its access to oil and military hardware. Alongside Foreign Ministers from the region, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), attended an international conference on peace and security in Iraq in Paris in September 2014. We continue to encourage governments throughout the region to support Prime Minister al-Abadi in his efforts to promote inclusive governance and advance the national reconciliation process. <br><br>Iran has an important role to play in the region and we have an ongoing dialogue on regional issues as part of our engagement via non-resident Chargé d’Affaires. The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), also discussed regional issues with President Rouhani on 24 September 2014. In Iraq, Iran’s support for the new government is welcome, as is its effort to promote more inclusive governance for all Iraqis. We are open to discussing Syria with Iran and raise the issue in our contacts with them. Iran can and must play a constructive role.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/11/2014 16:25:35 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

114489

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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
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 reported demolition of houses in Umm al-Khair village, near Hebron; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any such action on negotiations between the communities there.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The British Government repeatedly makes clear to the Israeli authorities our serious concerns about continued demolitions of Palestinian property and the need for Israel to abide by its obligations under international law. Demolitions cause unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians; are harmful to the peace process; and, in all but the most limited circumstances, are contrary to International Humanitarian Law (IHL).</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/11/2014 14:37:40 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

114490

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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
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 reported demolition of property in the al-Abbasiya area of Silwan and the arrest of the family to whom it belonged; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any such action on negotiations between the communities there.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>We have raised the threat of demolitions in Silwan with the Israeli Minister of Interior and the Municipality of Jerusalem. Our Embassy made clear that we were concerned by the latest demolition orders issued in the Al-Abbasiya neighbourhood of Silwan. Demolitions cause unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians; are harmful to the peace process; and, in all but the most limited circumstances, are contrary to International Humanitarian Law (IHL).</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/11/2014 14:37:11 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

114495

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to granting leave to remain in the United Kingdom to asylum applicants from Syria and Iraq.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes its international responsibilities very seriously and will always grant protection to those in genuine need. All asylum applications, including those from citizens of Iraq and Syria, are considered on a case-by-case basis. This is done in accordance with our international obligations and against the background of the latest available country of origin information drawn from a wide range of well-recognised sources.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/11/2014 12:25:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

105808

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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	Kosovo
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps the Kosovo Force is taking to prevent intercommunal violence in Kosovo; and whether they consider that it should increase its activity.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Kosovo Force (KFOR) continues to have a Kosovo-wide role particularly in the Serbian majority north of Kosovo. It also has a specific role in protecting Serbian Orthodox sites, yet in the south of Kosovo this is coming to an end. KFOR is currently in the process of transferring responsibility for these sites to the Kosovo Police. This is done in consultation with the Serbian Orthodox Church and taking into account the political and security conditions on the ground. The monastery at Decani remains under KFOR protection and the Patriarchate in Peja is currently undergoing a transition to police protection.</p><p>While there has been a slight increase in incidents of intercommunal violence, mainly due to the reverberations following a recent football match between Albania and Serbia, we do not see an overall trend of an increase in violence in general or a need for KFOR to increase activity.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 17/11/2014 14:40:52 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

105809

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect payments of the $5.4 billion pledged for reconstruction in Gaza to begin; and who will be responsible for collecting the pledges, and for supervising payments for work done.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Disbursement of pledges has already begun, funding early relief, recovery and reconstruction interventions in accordance with the multi-phased strategy set out in the Palestinian Authority-led Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan 2014-2017. The Palestinian Authority will oversee the implementation of the plan in coordination with the UN, donors, international financial institutions, civil society and the private sector.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 11/11/2014 16:27:53 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

105810

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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	Egypt
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 Egypt about recent kidnappings, in particular of women and children in central and upper Egypt, allegedly for forced conversion and marriage.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The British Government is concerned about reports of kidnapping in Egypt. We have been clear throughout recent events in Egypt that freedoms in the Egyptian constitution, including of religious belief, need to be protected as a vital component of a democratic society. Most recently, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), raised the need to protect human rights in their meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister on 27 October.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 11/11/2014 16:10:46 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

105811

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Hospitals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staffed and equipped field hospitals they have.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Armed Forces operate 14 Field Hospitals: three Regular Army, ten Regionally Recruited Reserve Field Hospitals and one Nationally Recruited Reserve Field Hospital. These are shown below:</p><p>22 Field Hospital (Regular) - presently deployed in Sierra Leone</p><p>33 Field Hospital (Regular)</p><p>34 Field Hospital (Regular)</p><p>201 (Northern) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>202 (Midlands) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>203 (Welsh) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>204 (North Irish) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>205 (Scottish) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>208 (Merseyside) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>243 (Wessex) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>256 (London) Field Hospital (Reserve)</p><p>306 Hospital Support Regiment (Reserve)</p><p>Regular Field Hospitals have a permanent cadre of staff who maintain the hospital and its equipment in barracks. During deployments and exercises they are augmented with Regular clinical staff from the Joint Medical Command. At the highest level of readiness, one of these units is able to deploy its lead elements at five days notice.</p><p>The Reserve Field Hospitals' role is to be ready to deploy for enduring operations with a minimum of 18 months notice. This allows sufficient time to prepare both the manpower and equipment for the deployment. Reserves can and do also volunteer as individuals to deploy on operations with Regular units at shorter notice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 11/11/2014 17:16:43 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

101734

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mediterranean Sea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had or plan to have with the governments of Egypt and Tunisia regarding methods of preventing unseaworthy vessels carrying refugees and migrants leaving their shores.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>On 10 October, the Justice and Home Affairs Council unanimously agreed Council Conclusions on better managing migratory flows into the EU. Those Conclusions place particular emphasis on work with the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan authorities to find ways to curtail the supply of vessels from Tunisia and Egypt.</p><p>The EU and Member States are already developing a ‘Mobility Partnership’ with Tunisia. The UK signed the political declaration of this Partnership in March 2014. This Partnership is intended to lead to concrete work with Tunisia the area of migration, including efforts to address the current situation in the Mediterranean.</p><p>The EU and Member States are also seeking an enhanced migration dialogue with Egypt, possibly leading to the development of a similar ‘Mobility Partnership’. To date, however, Egypt has expressed no interest in a Partnership of this kind.</p><p>We also hope to work with both Egypt and Tunisia under the new EU ‘Khartoum Process’, due to be launched at a Ministerial Conference in Rome on 28 November. This new initiative will focus on combating people smuggling and human trafficking in the Horn of Africa.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 18/11/2014 15:12:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

101735

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Egypt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to mobilise international assistance for refugees and other migrants in Egypt.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK is at the forefront of the international response to the Syria crisis. The UK has already allocated £700 million to support internally displaced persons inside Syria and Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, of which £2.3 million has been provided to Syrian refugees in Egypt in 2013/14. The UK Government has also been active in raising concerns on the treatment and detention of refugees and migrants within Egypt with the relevant authorities as well as providing diplomatic support to the work of UNHCR and other actors on these issues. The UK, through the tri-departmental Conflict Pool, is also supporting work to strengthen border management in the region.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID is helping to address economic challenges in Egypt, promoting economic opportunities to reduce hardship. For example DFID is supporting job creation and economic reform through the £125m regional Arab Partnership programme. This has included working with young people and other marginalised groups on developing the skills and opportunities to find and create sustainable jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 17/11/2014 14:26:49 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton