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date	21/11/2018
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	Jamal Khashoggi
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have seen the contents of the CIA’s assessment of the intelligence relating to the death of Jamal Khashoggi; if so, what confidence they have in that assessment; and whether it establishes what happened on 2 October.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>​The UK supports the continuation of the Turkish and Saudi investigations in order to provide a full picture of what happened on 2 October.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/12/2018 12:29:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1012127

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Jamal Khashoggi
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 19 November (HL11266), when they anticipate that Saudi Arabia will give the final explanation for the death of Jamal Khashoggi.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>​The UK has stressed the importance of following due process, and has called for the continuation of the investigation, which we expect to proceed in line with internationally recognised legal standards. We cannot pre-empt the results of the investigations.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/12/2018 12:29:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1012128

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Jamal Khashoggi
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government to what extent their response to the death of Jamal Khashoggi is consistent with their response to the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>​The UK condemns the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the strongest terms. We continue to treat this matter very seriously.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/12/2018 12:43:47 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1012129

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will take further action to address relative poverty in the UK in response to the Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, published on 16 November.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will carefully consider the findings set out in the Special Rapporteur’s interim report published on 16 November. Professor Alston’s final report will be presented to the June 2019 session of the of the Human Rights’ Council. Any formal comments made by the Government in response will be published alongside the final report on the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under this Government, income inequality has fallen and remains lower than in 2010; the number of children in workless households is at a record low; and there are 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty (before housing costs) compared with 2010, including 300,000 children.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Budget announced a number of changes to Universal Credit ahead of further expansion including an increase of £1,000 in work allowances from April 2019 allowing 2.4 million households to keep an extra £630 of income each year.</p><p> </p><p>Work continues to offer people the best opportunity to move out of poverty. Children living in households where all adults are working are five times less likely to be in relative poverty after housing costs than those in workless families.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/12/2018 13:42:00 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1012130

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Gaza: Israel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to support the ceasefire in Gaza agreed on 13 November.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>​We urge restraint from all parties and welcome the return to calm in recent days. We strongly support the mediation efforts of the international community led by Egypt and the UN and urge continued talks aimed at finding an enduring peace in Gaza. In order to protect civilians it is crucial that a ceasefire is agreed and maintained as part of a political process that sees the Palestinian Authority return to Gaza, and that restrictions on the Gazan people and economy are lifted.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/12/2018 12:27:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1012131

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Libya: Politics and Government
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 the divisions between the Libyan political factions can be bridged.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL11658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK is actively engaged in efforts to support the UN-led political process in Libya, the objective of which is to facilitate agreement among Libyans on a more inclusive political settlement. We fully support the next steps in this process set out by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in his briefing to the UN Security Council on 8 November and endorsed at the Palermo conference on 12-13 November. These include the convening of a wide range of Libyan stakeholders for a National Conference early in 2019, in order to seek consensus on the way forward on a number of important questions relating to Libya’s future.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/12/2018 12:28:26 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian